"Stitched samurai poised
On my husband's blue work shirt
Swords prepared to act."
I was digging deep in the boxes of stored stuff looking for something else and I found this pair of jaunty samurai instead. I embroidered them in my in my early twenties for my (then boyfriend now) husband on the front of a work shirt from Penny's department store. I had to cut them free from the shirt after he wore out almost every other part of shirt. They are actually small -- barely four inches tall. Definitely a call to get out my needle again...
Midori Snyder is the author of nine books for children and adults, published in English, French, Dutch, and Italian. She won the Mythopoeic Award for The Innamorati, a novel inspired by early Roman myth and the Italian "Commedia dell'Arte" tradition....
