POEM
Quilt
Critical Viewing: Design How does this image show that a quilt or other object can also be art?
Our family
is a quilt
of odd remnants
patched together
5 in a strange
pattern,
threads fraying, fabric
wearing thin—
but made to keep
10 its warmth
even in bitter
cold.
Reprinted with the permission of Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, from A SUITCASE OF SEAWEED AND OTHER POEMS by Janet S. Wong. Copyright © 1996 by Janet S. Wong. All rights reserved.