Five Ways to Wear the Balaclava
Journal: Prairie schooner
Year: 2014

Five Ways to Wear the Balaclava Judith H. Montgomery (bio) Have you shivered? Has sleet stung your face, numbed your chapped lips? Have you wished for the fleece of the family lamb that ran wild through rows of ripening apricot trees—fleececombed by the fire, spun on the ancient wheel? All day, the covey of mothers murmurs and casts on the ninety loose stitches, singing the oldest songs as they loop the wool double-rib (knit two, purl two), making a helmet of wool to shieldyour face from invadin