Poetry
The Chatter of the Loom
Saccharine sweet ladies
-insincere smiles, dulcet tones, iced innuendo,
weave their destruction
from teacup disturbances.
Truth warps
as the shuttle threads interpretation …
lives unravel as the fabric grows.
The distaff,
suited in respectability,
disrespect non-weavers.
The ladies,
arbiters in the culture of the covert,
savour power
through the chatter of the loom.
©Christine M Knight
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