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[Poem] Wedding Quilt

Annette November 16, 2013

[Poem] Wedding Quilt

Bailieborough Quilt PoemThis poem was the winner of the Bailieborough Poetry Festival competition 2013. Poets were invited to ‘quilt a poem’ in response to visual images of quilts.

This is the quilt that inspired Annette, and it prompted this tender poem which recognises each element of the patchwork as honouring, and binding, the fragile elements of a family’s lives together.

You can hear Annette reading the poem aloud here.

Wedding Quilt

Here’s amethyst
for love enduring,
the flicker of fire
on the skin.

Set in saffron,
the golden threads
of word and gesture
that weave us together.

To make this bond holy,
marigold crosses:
a pattern scored in rock
high on Massmount.

For our children,
sprays of grasses,
tangled in hair
after love in the open.

A net of sea and sky
to hold us fast,
to keep in mind
what lies beyond us.

Here is our morning
and evening,
our Book of Days,
our Reliquary.

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  Annette Skade is an award-winning poet, and teacher, living and writing on the Beara peninsula on Ireland's south-west coast.   In July 2013 she launched her inaugural poetry collection Thimblerig at the West Cork Literary Festival and is now working on poems for a second book.

Annette Skade poet
 
Annette Skade is an award-winning poet, and teacher, living and writing on the Beara peninsula on Ireland's south-west coast.
 
In July 2013 she launched her inaugural poetry collection Thimblerig at the West Cork Literary Festival and is now working on poems for a second book.

Poems

You can read some of Annette Skade's poems here on the website.
Her first collection of poetry, Thimblerig, can be bought directly from the publisher at Bradshaw Books or from Waterstones. Buy online from Abebooks, and Blackwells, or in Blackwell's Oxford store.
 
Thimblerig is also available from Bantry Bookshop, Kenmare Bookshop, the Sarah Walker Gallery in Castletownbere, the Winding Stair Bookshop in Dublin, and Waterstones, Cork.

You can buy a copy of Thimblerig directly from the publishers Bradshaw Books or via Waterstones

Published on Poethead

Several of Annette's poems have recently been published over on Poethead, the wonderful poetry blog run by Christine Murray.

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