When I was 8 years old<\/p>\n
My mother taught me how to sew<\/p>\n
Pushing and pulling the needle through the fabric making clean near stitches<\/p>\n
I picked at the loose frayed hole of my sweater<\/p>\n
on a rainy day in November<\/p>\n
And the rain drops kissed the concrete and the sky was as grey as your eyes<\/p>\n
I thought I could fix us, like I could fix my sweater<\/p>\n
Pushing and pulling the needle through making<\/p>\n
Tight neat stitches<\/p>\n
holding it together<\/p>\n
keeping us together<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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