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Our quilt
January 7, 2016
Our quilt
16 acrylic triangles sit on a canvas.
Arranged by rows of 4 X 4
wrapped in squares
it resembles a quilt
untouched on a bed.
That same bed
where he used to lie
so straight and so still
until the Stage 4 Cancers
took his life.
This quilt now lies upon my own bed.
It remains the same
if he were still laying
under that treasured
quilt. Instead it’s me
laying
so straight and so still,
under the squares
thinking about our Last
goodbyes.
Arranged by rows of 4 X 4
16 acrylic triangles sit on a canvas.
© Lena K., Marblehead, MA
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Poem inspired by: “Delta” By Paul Giovanopoulos 1990
This poem started out as a regular class assignment based off of a piece of art, but I soon became attached to it. The original poem was about a random quilt I hadn't ever seen before. Soon after revisions started was when I realized that the poem was about much more than just any old quilt. It was about the quilt that my great grandfather owned before he passed. He was not just any old great grandfather, he was the one that I felt was more like a father figure than anything. After he passed I am now the one who gets to cherish the quilt as much as he did -- if not more.