Quilt

Here is a geography
with no place
for distance, a love

that seams complete
in the scheme of purpose,
a declaration

of dependence between
mother and daughter,
embedded in cloth,

sensed from birth,
a secret belonging
to wholeness

whose order joins
each pattern
through the intricate

piecework of needle
and thread, a quiet grit
of resistance

passed down by design
to save the world
inside it.