Loom by Susan Isla Tepper

When it’s time
you will die of
gunshot wounds
to your back.
You’ll bleed out
slowly 
blending into colors
on the big Turkish rug
people spent whole lives
kneeling before.
Pulling wool through
a loom. 

Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty years published writer in all genres.  Her current project is an Off-Broadway Play on the subject of art and life.