always one to go back
to the basic building blocks

with words

and life

and all

i have been learning
to spin wool
into yarn

first with a drop spindle
the way ancestors
have made thread
for thousands of years

then on a borrowed wheel

waiting sometimes
not so patiently
to be able to have
a spinning wheel of my very own

santa must have thought
i was a good girl this year

or that maybe
i had lost enough
and maybe there should be a plus
in the equation somewhere

the machine and i
are still in the
getting to know each other stage

we move in fits and spurts
the wheel stops moving
sometimes
and goes backwards
grabbing my yarn

but i am learning patience
and one day soon
we will be old friends