MENDED GARMENTS

The thin blouse
     stretched over the ironing board     
reveals . . .
patches,
reminding me of fragility,
How, too
are we,
stretched under that which
would make us smooth,
and our patches
made visible.

Stronger, they say, is the
bone where it breaks.

JAL, 9-11-98



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