I’ve been making rabbits’ ears all during Covid.
I just didn’t know it until I met the Crafty women of Beara
with their talk of gauges and fibres and fleeces and spinning,
alpaca herds and plastic sewing machines that can knit socks in twenty minutes,
the very ones that take me two weeks to complete.
And the rabbit ear, if you want to know, is the loop you’re left with
when you finish off a sock toe with the Kitchener stitch.
So say the newly dubbed Lauragh Loopers
as they spin yarns and tales with their clickety click
in the shade of the Caha Mountains and into the twilight.
Cathy Leonard’s poetry has been published in The Works, The Cork Literary Review and Poets meet Painters Anthologies 2011-2014. Runner up in the Fish Flash Fiction Award 2013 and in Sceine, Kenmare Poetry Festival Competition 2014.
I just didn’t know it until I met the Crafty women of Beara
with their talk of gauges and fibres and fleeces and spinning,
alpaca herds and plastic sewing machines that can knit socks in twenty minutes,
the very ones that take me two weeks to complete.
And the rabbit ear, if you want to know, is the loop you’re left with
when you finish off a sock toe with the Kitchener stitch.
So say the newly dubbed Lauragh Loopers
as they spin yarns and tales with their clickety click
in the shade of the Caha Mountains and into the twilight.
Cathy Leonard’s poetry has been published in The Works, The Cork Literary Review and Poets meet Painters Anthologies 2011-2014. Runner up in the Fish Flash Fiction Award 2013 and in Sceine, Kenmare Poetry Festival Competition 2014.
