heddles pedals and shuttles

My poem has nothing to do with flowers in a Mason jar.

It's about weaving!

However, when I think of weaving I immediately am focused on colors and textures,

all of which are bursting from the above container.

yesterday I was a weaver

heddles pedals and shuttles

the rhythm of weaving words

I return to my loom again

and listen to the clickety clack

of heddles pedals and shuttles

the warp is complete 

a job not favored by most

but lost in the repetition

of warp is the weft

the best collective of whatever 

I choose

for my heddles pedals and shuttles

the bobbins are wound

the loom speaks its sounds 

I begin my journey of threads

in out skipping missing

the freestyle weaving I flaunt

with my heddles pedals and shuttles

the project took hours

the traveling was miles 

I brought it home yesterday

from Her Studio

where spools line the walls

and fill the drawers waiting

for heddles pedals and shuttles

joanconnor

04.3.2026