What cannot be told to someone who does not want to listen or does not express curiosity. You feel better when you hold the story patches between your fingers. Use yarn, shredded curtain fabric, yards of amethyst satin. A childhood quilt for your daughter. Bull Connor turned hoses on protesters in Birmingham, with water pressure great enough to tear the bark from a tree, roll a small girl down the main street.
Leaves are applique.
You wanted to study the stars. They made you feel whole. The quilting pattern is of tiny hawk moons. That which is rare and hopeful. Comes along when it is the second full moon within the same month.