Emily Dickinson

Don't put up my Thread and Needle

617 Don't put up my Thread and Needle — I'll begin to Sew When the Birds begin to whistle — Better Stitches — so — These were bent — my sight got crooked — When my mind — is plain I'll do seams — a Queen's endeavor Would not blush to own — Hems — too fine for Lady's tracing To the sightless Knot — Tucks — of dainty interspersion — Like a dotted Dot — Leave my Needle in the furrow — Where I put it down — I can make the zigzag stitches Straight — when I am strong — Till then — dreaming I am sewing Fetch the seam I missed — Closer — so I — at my sleeping — Still surmise I stitch —