grasp your needle and cotton

and pierce it with the thread

hold this silence in your mouth

and stitch tightly your words

like a handwoven linen

then loosely weave them into the sky

with a thin wash of colour.

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Angela (she/her) was born and lives in rural North Wales, UK, she has recently returned to poetry after many years. This last year Angela has been published in a number of magazines and is currently compiling her work for her first poetry collection.

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