We are both dressed
in matching-tan-wool coats
topped-off with elegant tams.

Standing together on stone steps —
green grass thriving at our feet,
buds and blossoms from the rose bush
showing in the corner of the frame.

We are playing “dress-up”
(blistering hot and sweating
under the heavy-wool-weight),
in the famous June heat —
smiling on cue, as grandma snaps our picture,

with an ancient box camera
and old, arthritic hands.

~June 2012

Image by geirt.com via Flickr

Other Reading:

• Working with wool (gumvalleypatchwork.typepad.com)
• Kathy McLeish in Afghanastan (blogs.abc.net.au)