Nick Talent’s most recent poem to appear here was Moat (June 2014).
Pulling the Thread
By Nick Talent
It started with a question
a doubt raised
by a look you gave
when I said I didn’t like
sushi. Then there was
the argument
about the clock
and what time [10:00] was.
And the time we fought
about how to cook
chicken and rice
with less or more spice.
And the time we spoke
two different languages
at each other
and couldn’t understand
the cross-talk.
Nothing to poke
a finger in at first.
But one day in May
I noticed the left seam
no longer held
and the hem had frayed
right below
what looked to be
a moth hole.
It still took until
September to admit
the stitches couldn’t be reknit.
But damn, I wish it still fit.
Excellent. I liked the subtle rhyme, the metaphor and especially the ending.
I enjoyed Pulling the Thread. It so easily relatable since relationships can be difficult and complicated even when we wish, at the end, it could have been different. The images are very clear and many have seen themselves there in the past.