Shir-O-Shakher

 

Smooth as milk

yet lumpy as sugar

Your texture changes with the weather

and you're woven at different tensions

Yet no matter how wrinkled

you are always light weight

Around you the air is breathable

I feel you'll never pull my frayed ends

and destroy me in unraveling

You're like a favorite seersucker suit

I want to wear

until forever ends

26-October-2024

Tressa Lee Breen

Day 26 of 31 OctPoWriMo2024

Magnetic Poetry pull: Destroy, Feel, Suit, Sucker, Until.

Googled seersucker suit ~ "The name of a seersucker suit comes from the Persian phrase "shir-o-shakher" which means "milk and sugar".  The name refers to the fabric's alternating smooth and gritty textures, which resemble milk and sugar. Seersucker is a lightweight, breathable fabric that's woven with threads at different tensions, causing some threads to bunch together and give the fabric a puckered appearance."

Images: Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in "To Kill A Mockingbird" (1962), pink and blue suits pulled at random from Google search, all used without permission, with no credit taken, no profit made, and no offense intended.