You can count the knots on the back of the kilim

to measure its quality

an easy way to measure an abstract variable

perhaps if we had knots on our backs it would be easier than this

          this consensus of categorization

          it’s either me or you since you call Him

          by a different name

family trees cast weird shadows

that demarcate themselves

 

if my mother had these knots on her back they’d be frayed

from the stress of buying bread

                        of numbing her ears

                        of not being there when her mother still was

 

thankfully the kilim features simple motifs

that don’t distract or draw attention

so it won’t remind you of knots

or of variables