slg+seams+still+holding+our+dreams



"Pillowcases, despite so many washings, seams still holding our dreams." This stanza caught my attention and brought an illusion of this worn out relationship. The phrase "Despite so many washings," created this idea of a worn out relationship. What I'm speaking of is a relationship that has gone through a lot as far as the lovers fighting and the emotionally exhausting component of a dying relationship. In the second picture there are threaded needles. This represents the seams staying put. This stanza is a beautiful explanation of how much these two lovers have been through. Yet these threads, these few things keeping the two together barely grasping their dreams and letting them just slightly drift away damaging their "forever" and the hope of a perfect ending. Later in the poem the poet writes, "Paper clips, whatever they held between shiny jaws, now dissolved or clogging the drain." This stanza goes hand in hand with their dreams slipping away. When the poet speaks of something being dissolved she is speaking of their love dissolving or being clogged. This is where that passion and that love doesn't quite slip away and dissolve but there's one last glimmer of a chance. The poem has an obvious tone of an unraveling relationship that has been overcome with huge amounts of laundry, and their problems are being covered up and ignored.