Hooking the Eye

Hooking the Eye

Paul J. Pastor

Blessed be the needle’s shank, well-threaded,
passed through cloth, drawn down and over
and right down;
blessed its elegant,
thin point, the silver flick which clicks the thimble;
blessed the staring of its one eye open,
stitching, hitching,
mending tears,
teaching the motion each good life
must take, drawn down and over
and right down.

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Paul J. Pastor
Poet & Editor

Paul is an award-winning writer and editor (for Penguin Random House), whose most recent book is Bower Lodge: Poems. His work has appeared widely, including in The Los Angeles Review of Books, FORMA, The Windhover, Solum Literary Press, Fathom, and many other excellent outlets, and has been anthologized by the New York Quarterly Review. He is a candidate for Master of Fine Art in Poetry at the University of St. Thomas. He lives in Oregon.

Photography by Olga Lazacovici