The Mind
Needlework: Buttonholes
From Curtains (1921)
The Mind
Cut a little opening
And overcast it, then
(Throwing the thread across each stitch)
Stitch it round again.
A moment's stitching finds it
Finished; but not until
The sun has burned its beauty out
And dropped behind the hill.
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MLA
Hall, Hazel. “Needlework: Buttonholes.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hall_h/63/.
Chicago
Hall, Hazel. “Needlework: Buttonholes.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hall_h/63/.
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