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    Fourteen Threadless Needles
    Fourteen Threadless Needles
    Fourteen Threadless Needles
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    Fourteen Threadless Needles

    By Vito Pasquale

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    Fourteen Threadless Needles is a poetry collection about a lifetime of relationships, the relationship of a lifetime and the awareness that 'Something there is that doesn't love a happy ending.' Poems about love, sharing, laughter, forgetting, second guesses and a poem for you:

    A Poem for You
    — I want to write a poem for you.
    — Um, okay.

    — Can you pose for me, sitting in this chair in the sunlight?
    — Why?

    — I need to be able to see you clearly—to describe you perfectly.

    — Should I take off my clothes?
    — You don't have to. It wasn't going to be. . .

    — What if I want to?
    — If you do, I'll never get to the poem.

    — That's okay isn't it?
    — Well, I kind of had my heart set on writing a poem.

    — Can't you change your mind? Your heart?
    — Can I do the poem first?

    — Only if it's nonabstractly unambiguous about the state of my undress.

    — I don't think I have the right words with me. I left them home by accident.

    — Then. Don't. Use. Words.
    — It's a poem. It has to have words.

    — Not in my book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVito Pasquale
    Release dateNov 17, 2011
    ISBN9781465978219
    Fourteen Threadless Needles
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    Vito Pasquale

    Vito Pasquale is an operations director for a publisher, a writer and photographer living in New York State.

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