African Quilt Market (Part Two) is featured on the JBlack Designs blog. JBlack Designs features poetry illustrated by hand crafted items listed for sale on Etsy.com. Visit JBlack Designs to see how African Quilt Market (Part Two) is incorporated into the beautiful poem by Nikki Giovanni. Here is the poem:

Quilts

Like a fading piece of cloth

I am a failure

No longer do I cover tables filled with food and laughter

My seams are frayed my hems falling my strength no longer able

To hold the hot and cold

I wish for those first days

When just woven I could keep water

From seeping through

Repelled stains with the tightness of my weave

Dazzled the sunlight with my 

Reflection

I grow old though pleased with my memories

The tasks I can no longer complete

Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past

I offer no apology only

this plea: 

When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end

Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt

That I might keep some child warm

And some old person with no one else to talk to

Will hear my whispers

And cuddle near

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African Quilt Market (Part Two), 15 x 30 inches, by O.V. Brantley, 2008. For sale at http://www.ovbrant.etsy.com