• Resa Mestel is a poet, weaver, nurse and community-based volunteer whose work has appeared in Mom Egg Review, Poetica, The Westchester Review, The 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly, Breaking Bread, The New Verse News, Peekskill Herald and others. She lives in Ossining, New York.

Embroidered

We wave, we pledge, we trample, we honor, adorn as bunting strips of a mother’s cochineal-dyed
petticoat, a captain’s indigo uniform, white stars cut from the home-spun linen shirt pulled off a
soldier’s body; in wonder of whose delicate fingers defined, dreamed, hand-stitched our freedom.