"The Sweater Curse" by Michele Schremp 

Yarn over, slip stitch double stitch chain stitch Double stitch and double nine times turn. You know I’m not destined to be rich 
For you, I give hands overflowing, 
Labors and cares less couture, more kitsch For you, millions of wordless ways, times Too little to be at all enough, 
So I’ll wrap you in it, keep you warm, 
For you, reaffirm every instant 
I love the slip stitch double stitch chain 
I weave my care into every stitch 
Where words have failed, inaction finally made right This, and this too will prove me to you. 
My eyes burning in the midnight light 
Lonely lovers know nothing of sleep 
What I can’t yet express, this gift might 
Fingers tremble the clumsy prayer of 
Slip stitch double stitch chain stitch pulled tight 
The chill creeps between the window panes Silence stretches in conversation, your cold shoulder Turned warm if i buy yet another skein 
Of that cobalt blue, I’ll remind you 
Of our lakeside summer, perfectly happy When my care was enough for us two. 
Your smile, sweeter than ancient honey 
Like loves of Apollo, Orpheus 
(I’ll be unfaithful Eurydice) 
Slip stitch double stitch chain stitch 
I’m drowning now, in tangled cords 
Where is that red string of fate? 
You’ve taken scissors to what kept me onshore And still I desperately knot 
(Yarn, beauty, care, did it ever matter?) 
This perfect web, your fickle heart caught If only, I love you, I’m sorry, please stay 
Yarn over, slip stitch double stitch chain snip.