Charlotte Estrin Writer

Inspired by: Clotho of the Mill, Henry Kirke Brown, Filatrice, 1850. Bronze, 20 3/4 in. x 11 1/4 in. x 6 1/2 in. (52.71 cm x 28.58 cm x 16.51 cm).

Spin the thread
they tell me
to create

creation from my fingers.
Dye and labor stain them
blue and red and green, a rainbow.

What a better story it would be
if my own thread held a fate.

Alas, I am no Clotho with
no sisters at my side and
so I work.

Thread ever longer.
Spinning, spinning
Snip.