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Theliterarythug
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Brothers of the delta and the still darkened corner
Sisters of the dust and the south puget basin
Come and receive this slender thread
Oh Mothers! Oh Fathers!
Oh Healing, wounded daughters
And Sons to communities and sons to the abyss
Join together to receive this slender thread
Come, my city, to weave and love and talk
And Create in worlds from the all too real
That seem more real that the material seen
All in the receiving of this slender thread.
Families!, Come weave for Sunday clothes
For Heirlooms, for covers to make it through
Unheated winters, and for the simple
Yet urgent need for creative expression
And the life giving power of this slender thread
If you have nothing, people, then come with your
Bare bones, your strands, your
Pictures and your symbols to connect
To a world beyond this fractious corner
To a place of validation and blessed assurance
That doesn’t come from a needle, a bump-up
Or a Pentecostal shack.
Come, my Tacoma disconsolate, from wherever block You may languish, find in this sowing praise circle
The vivid streaks of color, light and life
You have long tried to seek,
And say to the material world
“We have joy here! We have humanity!
And we will find a way out of no way
For every other way has been taken.”
Come, Tacoma
Come and receive this slender thread


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