My grandmother pinked all the seams,
protecting them with zig and zag
from an unravelling of the weave.
She taught me how to set in sleeves,
face a collar, match a plaid.
But above all insisted I pink the seams
that season of patterns and gabardine
so no dress would have a ragged edge
from an unravelling of the weave.
Sue Chenette wrote the documentary poem What We Said, about her first-hand experiences as a social worker
during Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. Her latest collection, Clavier, Paris, Alyssum, is due out this fall.
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