SUNDAY POEMS
An adage reimagined for the new age in which we're living
SUTURES
A stitch in time,
they say, but you know better:
no stitch would be required if not for a tear
in the fabric, if not for a hole in need of darning,
if not for a gap in the whole-cloth narrative.
Best get stitching. The clock is ticking.
What about the nine saved in the process?
Is never being needed the same as being
saved? Why worry about salvation in the midst
of so many rags and bones? Who cares about
conserving labor when the whole damn edifice
has come undone? How do we stop the unspooling
before the thread is irretrievably lost?
A stitch in time
is fine if fine is what you’re after,
but no stitch can mend so seamlessly
what’s been rent that it seems it never happened.
It happened. Look closely and you’ll see
the cross-stitched scars that prove it.
©2026 Skip Berry

"Best get stitching. The clock is ticking." Love this admonition.