Quilt

...or curtains in your grandmother's house,
a bit of sky
from a place you remember.
If it was that easy
to patchwork pieces of my
heart together,
it would have been done long ago
(the thread kept snapping)

My piece of sky would be ebony
and diamonds,
not suitable for a quilt just because
it would be too heavy.

Perhaps it does all fit together,
only not outside myself-
I realise now,
I am the only way it will stitch.