(NaPoWriMo) No. 22 i am knitting a red thing.

i am knitting a red thing.
it’s big as a heart

and full of pomegranate seeds.

i am knitting with yarn spun
from a red aurora
that fell out of the night

into my outstretched hands
that were pleading
for something impossible.

one day the red aurora knitted thing
will perch on my head
and want to be my hair.

i will shake red dreads
i will dance with red abandon,
give everything away,

and knit and knit a happiness
of red

until red
shrieks like a bottle rocket,

impatient to be done, just wild
to move on to the next
iteration.

--Zann Carter 04.22.09