Repurposed Life

by deb y felio

discarding old fashioned ideas 

for contemporary

identifications and ways

of being

this loose thread 

pull         unwinding, unraveling

original patterns and notions

into unmapped traveling

and in this

heaping pile 

I search for meaning

in everything I 

shredded

now myself

at loose ends

searching again

grabbing hooks

and needles

knitting together 

variations

of the past

that nurtured 

and guided

me to the place

I thought I was going