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COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYFORT WAYNE,ALLEN COUNTY,INDIANA  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2018 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/ilaymystitchesdo0000grad  \n# I Lay My Stitches Down\n\nPoems of American Slavery  \nWritten byCynthia Grady  \nIllustrated byMichele Wood  \nEerdmans Books for Young ReadersGrand Rapids,Michigan·Cambridge,U.K.  \nFor Tylka,with love.  \n—C.G.  \nTo my nieces,nephews,brother,and my future child.  \nFollow the light along the path of God because there will be precious jewels  \nto pick up on your way in life.The treasure willconfirm the path you have taken is the right one.I believe I Lay My Stitches Down is a gold nugget.Follow the light.  \n—M.W.  \nText ◎2012Cynthia GradyIllustrations ◎2012 Michele Wood  \nAll rights reserved  \nPublished in 2012 by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers,an imprint of Wm.B.Eerdmans Publishing Co.2140 Oak Industrial Dr.NEGrand Rapids,Michigan 49505PO.Box 163,Cambridge CB39PU U.K.  \nwww.eerdmans.com/youngreaders  \nManufactured at Tien Wah Press in Singapore in June 2011,first printing  \n12131415161718   987654321  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nGrady,Cynthia.I lay my stitches down/by Cynthia Grady;illustrated by Michele Wood  \np.cm.  \nISBN 978-0-8028-5386-8(alk.paper)  \n1.United States—History—Juvenile poetry.2.United States—Biography—Juvenile poetry.  \n3.Children’'s poetry,American.[1.United States—History—Poetry.2.American poetry.]  \nI.Wood,Michele,ill.II.Title.PS3607.R3275I152012811'.6—dc232011022481  \nThe illustrations were created wich acrylics on canvas.The display type was set in Casablanca AntiqueThe text type was set in Adobe Garamond Pro.  \nQuiltmaking and poetry share similarities in craft.Inone,color and shape are organized into an overall pattern;in the other,sound and structure create the pattern.Eachpoem in this collection is named for a traditionalquilt blockand reflects a metaphorical patchwork of circumstancesencountered by enslaved people in America.  \nThe poems are written in unrhymed verse,ten lines of tensyllables,to mimic the square shape of a quilt block.Toreflect the three layers ofaquilt,I've engaged three referencesin each poem:a biblical or spiritual reference,a musicalreference,and a sewing or fiber arts reference in addition tothe imagery the poem calls for.In this way I have tried tomirror not only the structure of a quilt but also the artistryand symbolism that quilts express for their makers.  \n—Cynthia Grady  \n# Log Cabin\n\nThe finds of archaeologists beneathdilapidated cabins down the hill:  \nsome chicken bones,the skins and skulls of coonsand squirrels—hard remains of suppers stalkedby moonlight,faith,starvation.Caches,too,of divination:sea shells,broken beads,  \nand bundled roots suggest how slaves surviveda knotted life of cornmeal,cruelty,death.The dig won't yield the stolen,lost,withheld:shoes,safety,drums,dignity,daughters,sons.  \n# 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