Why Men Quilt

Why Men Quilt by Robert (Bob) Moore © 2015 My wife wants me to start to quilt, said a lot of men do now I would not have the talent nor the patience to learn how imagine me, with all these words, for poems in my head to add colours, forms and shapes, and quality of thread Quilt comes from the Greek “culcita” meaning a stuffed sack that’s probably how I would feel, but with an aching back my eyes would fall out of my head, to sit there all day long the needle going up and down, the tension going wrong Not just the tension in the thread, but the tension in my neck then all the threads would go real slack, and I’d think, what the heck I’d yell out and she would come to see what I had done she would pat me on the head, and I wished I could run I say this quilting’s not for me, but she just doesn’t listen you have to keep the tension tight, or stitches will be missin’ she fixes up the sewing machine, rubs my neck, and shoulders too and I go back to quilting, tell me, what else can I do.