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| Self Portrait Along the Boarder Line Between Mexico and the United States, 1932, by Frida Kahlo |
A Mexican girl sits knitting
as the night spreads out in dreams,
and old women dream of Autumn winds.
She knits time to space,
warmth to cold, love to
alone, strength to innocence.
She knits moons to their orbits,
needles clicking with the certainty of stars,
webbing the known and unknown.
She knits sweet shadows
that breathe a calm to longing,
and drink the emerald waning of the moon.
Her darkness rounds the world with sleep,
past crouching walls of fearful lands,
with the graceful wave of parting lovers.
Sean Lause is a professor of English at Rhodes State College in Lima, Ohio, United States. His poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review, Another Chicago Magazine, The Alaska Quarterly, Atlanta Review, The Pedestal, The Beloit Poetry Journal, European Judaism, Illuminations, Sanskrit and Poetry International. His first book of poems Bestiary of Souls was published in 2013 by FutureCycle Press.