Literary Impulse & Paper Poetry ‘Eudaimonia’ Prompt Submission

The Patchwork Quilt

A monoku and prose poem

Image assembled by author using author’s handwritten words and Lance Calkin’s 1887 oil painting, The Patchwork Quilt (source — credit in footnote)

patchwork quilted memories forever love stitched interwoven time

I wrote the words (it’s a monoku but more about that later) before I found the image to go with them. I hadn’t intended these…