Nine loved needles
loved licking them
it made her tongue twitch
She loved the whir
of the sewing machine
and her mother's stitch
in time she even loved
blackberries. Which she always
hated before
and she loved things more lately
than she thought she should
sometimes
and wondered if a crease was stitched together
in the folds of her memories
keeping her from remembering
something
not a thing
hard to retrieve
she realized
with the folds stitched, memory skips
ahead, buffers are late
the video stutters
and replay only repeats the stutter
we know from records
the stitch saved her
whether from what was sealed in memory
or by its revelation
we'll never know
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