The Poetry Answer to NaNoWriMo

It's National Novel Writing Month and I am not a novel writer. To support my novel writing friends, I write a poem a day for the month of November focusing on the season or on gratitude.

How do you support your friends, partners and loves in your circles?

Detangling

I study the mess of string and hooks and bits

sitting in my lap

"It will take weeks to untangle it, Mom."

I smile and find an end

After a few hours

I get out my back up plan...

A needle from blanket

that I was to finish last year

I weave and move the strings

through one another

wondering how I will ever

loosen the mass of knots in the middle

Hour by hour my needle and I

find our way until there are only

straight strings and hooks

Three or four hours, not weeks.

You make them into

something amazing that

only a child would think to create

And I? I was your detangler.