With silk and thread!
Folks that run with butterfly nets
Over the sun and the moon
Should by their wings regret
Not the shadow of the loom
That clothed their bones
With silk and thread!
And hemmed their starlit souls
With hearts that bled an inky lead
Like harpooned whales
poem by Mark Heathcote
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