The Quilt Recorded It

the quilt
recorded it
the seepage of
a hundred years
of your ancestry
coming out as the
sole blacksheep that
likes her wood shavings
curled on this definitive
side of the bevel edge; simple
when you plane you make a shaving
the curl is significant

to even think
that you would want
any polish other than
cordovan bees-wax based
from any other vendor would
be insultingly inferior to my vanity
and that of your own

and also beneath
your potential

my technique
of neatsfoot is
penetrative of seeping
deep into your grain where
I have dilated your pores with
time-honored ingredients

turpentine
and mink oil
diluted with your
vaginal secretions
running the sap down
the barnwood walls where
the quilt recorded the seepage
and you recorded the quilt recording
the seepage you laid me on penetrating
the patchwork down to the batting

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist