Seamstress

LAURENCE MUSGROVE

April 1, 2020

If my mother were still alive,

She’d have joined the volunteer

Work of this mask-making army,

Throwing open her plastic bins

Of scraps, elastics, and ribbon.

She’d set up her machine, hand

Us her scissors, and tell us to

Start cutting until she said stop.

LAURENCE MUSGROVE is a writer, editor, and teacher. His books include Local Bird – a poetry collection, One Kind of Recording – a volume of aphorisms, and The Bluebonnet Sutras – Buddhist dialogues in verse. He received his PhD in English from University of Oregon, Eugene, and currently teaches at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. He offers workshops on the Buddhist wisdom tradition, drawing-to-learn, and the causes of beauty in poetry. He co-edited Texas Weather with Terry Dalrymple and is currently editing a volume of Writing Texas, the 7th annual conference proceedings of the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. More here.