This poem was written thanks to a poetry workshop exercise from Jan Owen. Poems with "fabric" somehow incorporated were suggested as the springboard. See Richard Wilbur's "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" and Rosemary Dobson's "5 Folding the Sheets". Both are wonderful sources of inspiration.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43048/love-calls-us-to-the-things-of-this-world
https://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/dobson-rosemary/5-folding-the-sheets-0545010
'TO START AGAIN' was first published in ArtAscent Art and Literature Journal 33, October 2018, page 64. https://artascent.com/
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