"For my Grandmother Knitting"

"no need they say, but the needles still move"

"Their rhythms in the working of your hands"

"as easily
as if your hands"

"sure and skillful hands of a
fisher-girl"

"master of your moments"
"deft and swift"
"still-ticking quick silver fish"

2nd stanza

Hands

"Swollen-jointed. Red. Arthritic. Old"

"As if your hands remembered"
"As if your hands had forgotten"

Structure