This Is One Way to Dance by Sejal Shah

Author:Sejal Shah
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2020-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

WOMEN’S STUDIES

Three embroidered, cream-colored cloths—or are they two—float in the kitchen. They are not framed the way stitching, cross-stitching, and needlepoint are framed in other people’s front hallways and parlors and living rooms and above stairs. They are not framed at all. They are not letters, pilgrim blue. They are not a repetition of vowel sounds, of consonants. They do not linger. They are flowers, and they curl. They taunt me: what was it that I meant to do? To frame, to frame, to hang up. Nothing done. Were they part of what women had to do to show some sort of mastery over the smallest surface? I will never embroider like that. We had latch hook, just hours of watching The Guiding Light and All My Children and hooking. The ugliest designs and colors until some design, oversize red and blue mushrooms in a field, grew, moldlike, in shag rug splendor.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.