Poetry Wednesday - yet another draft

My words have left me again as I’m in the middle of an ME/CFS crash, so this is VERY, VERY much a draft.

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Hello poetry people,

Well, I didn’t really have anything thing for you this week, only drafts and knitting. And drafts about knitting. Last weeks escapades have drained me and even with my belovèd Lions Manes pills (the only way my brain fires atm) I’m struggling to think even mundane thoughts. I dislike this part of a crash and have previously written about it, or tried to, it’s difficult to write about not being able to think when you need to think to write and coming out of it and writing about it in retrospect doesn’t have the same feel or quality.

This draft poem was inspired by a dream I had about knitting poetry. There are washing lines blowing in the breeze full of knitted squares of different patterns that had poetry somehow entwined in them. Much more an actual art project than a poem I think. And I may do it if I get enough inspiration and energy.

This draft needs SO much work. But it’s poetry Wednesday and putting drafts out there does actually seem to help me see what’s wrong. (Most of it) It needs more ‘texture’.

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Knitting With Words (working title)

cast on using cable-cast throughout
joints click and needles clack
rib, starting with purl, p2, k2 to end 
soft yarn moves over flesh and metal
k14, kfb, twist yarn front to back, k to end
the pattern difficult, requiring persistence

10 rows of stocking stitch, starting with purl 
the words deserted, left, moved on,
p1, k1, k2tog, change the design subtly,
found one more capable, more worthy

cut yarn B, reattach yarn A
a lack of written expression 
Short rows, wrap and turn, shape 
gives an old art creative voice
k1, psso, k14, k2tog, k to end

an alternate skill devoid of words
with RS facing sl all stitches to RH needle

space to think, space to exist,
pick up stitches along main edge
making whimsy to catch attention 
p2tog, p to last 2 st, p2tog

words are knitting, knitting is words.
cast off knit wise, sew in all ends

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So that’s all for today folks, from sunny (what a surprise) Yorkshire, watching the view from my bed, as usual let me know what you think.

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