Gossamer Yarn

Have you been to that tiny wool shop?

Pink, purple and red–

Clashing colours lie side by side

in perfect inanimate harmony.

Have you felt the warmth

of the old lady knitting at the back of the shop?

She orders around a younger man:

"That shade of blue, with glitter on it, 

not the blue with black in it!"

Have you been to that inconspicuous shop

in the middle of two big stores?

It has no name nor perfumed air within;

Only mounds of gossamer threads—

another romanticized pack of commercial ware

©Geetakshi Arora

Oct 28,2013