The poem is about the relationship of a nostalgic lyric self with his mother, who was a seamstress. A first image is found in the following fragment:
/ how the thread darted in and out
galloping along the frayed edges /
She exercises her trade with a thread that seems to gallop on the cloth.
Then, a very evocative image that describes his mother / you were the river current
carrying the roaring notes forming them into pictures of a little boy reclining
a swallow flying /.
In both cases, the visual aspect is used to improve the lyric quality
