Thimbles

Plastic, pottery, gimcrack-brummagem-metal

gleaming like fools gold.

Littlefingered shapes in drawers

at the back under batteries

and unwanted business cards.

Named and shamed for holiday destinations;

proudly bought in Antrim,

Pwllheli, Saltcoats or Cromer,

in the special display box

on the patterned paper wall.

Found with bobbins and the pinking shears,

a pin-tacked-pattern on silk.

An almost frock, or a pinafore

in the upholstered stool,

your mother’s sewing box.