In Praise of Mended Things

Those items that fit me well
 touch my soul
Some spirit of serendipity
 saw to it and allowed our meeting

Perhaps in my loving it
 too much, too long
I wear it bare
Unwilling to part with it
I take it to that little local shop
 or take a needle to it with my novice hand

That once foreign object of love
 Now broken–in
  transfigures into something
  sturdier than when we begin
Those insightful adjustments
 second nature after so much shared trail
 weave into the mending
Now on our second honeymoon
We find ourselves wholly together