Bits of Yarn, Calico and Velvet Scraps                                                            Page 1

Postmodernism begins with a sense of irrevocable loss and incurable fault. This

wound is inflicted by the overwhelming awareness of death - a death that 'begins'

with the death of God and 'ends' with the death of ourselves.

Mark C Taylor

Vision begins to happen in such a life

As if a woman quietly walked away

from the argument and jargon in a room

and sitting down in the kitchen, began turning in her lap

bits of yarn, calico and velvet scraps,

laying them out absently on the scrubbed boards

in the lamplight, with small rainbow coloured shells...

Such a composition has nothing to do with eternity,

the striving for greatness, brilliance -

only with the musing of a mind

one with her body, experienced fingers, quietly pushing

dark against bright, silk against roughness,

pulling tenets of a life together

with no mere will to mastery

only care ...

Adrienne Rich

"the tenets of my life .... and they too will be moved around with care"