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thimbles and threads

jamie gannon

Free verse
thimbles and threads

Sometimes
we survive by
thimbles and threads
Where an act of kindness or
the gentleness of touch
Can separate here from there

I broke my heart to
find my body
and
I broke my body to
find my heart

And
sometimes
You die of wounds
A day
A month
A year
Several
Then
More

Died of wounds
On a dark night
forever ago
But always now

About this poem

I enjoy the challenge of capturing particular moments in the most succinct language possible. "thimbles and threads" feels like friendship after loss.

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Written on February 02, 2022

Submitted by jamiegannon27 on January 27, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A BxAcxx dxEdx EBfxxxxxc fxxx
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 350
Words 74
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 6, 5, 9, 4
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jamie gannon

Jamie is a professor of writing and journalism with over twenty years teaching experience. She once came upon a beautiful, life-changing anthology, Against Forgetting. The anthology’s premise was simple: how to use poetry to confront personal, physical, and political trauma. Poems as civil disobedience; poetry as defiance. The following poems were born from that central tenet. Some poems would fit comfortably in the confessional vein of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Author is currently finishing her dissertation and dreaming of the Italian countryside. more…

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