Sewing Angels in the Dark (Song for Cynthia)
by Kay Kestner:
Sewing Angels in the Dark (Song for Cynthia)
I wanted to sing “London Bridge is Falling Down.”
We’re building better bridges now. With our hands,
with our hearts, we’re sewing angels in the dark.
Blue, laced, and goldenrod – I hold my best dream’s
mustard seed in the locket my mother’s grandmother
gave to me through the hands that cradled a hundred
years, three wars, and a factory.
We have not forgotten how to sing,
regardless of clipped wings.
Overused, plowed down, ripped, and torn.
We drink coffee thinking that maybe we’d
be better women if we drank tea instead.
Three sugars, one cream, we smoke ashes, one
lighter between us.
There is so much of the sun
that we discover in the night.
We didn’t think any good could grow through our fingers.
But I had a needle and you had the thread.
Together we learned to mend.
I wanted to sing “London Bridge is Falling Down.”
We’re building better bridges now. With our hands,
with our hearts, we’re sewing angels in the dark.
© December, 12th, 1996 – Kay Kestner
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Kay Kestner 
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