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A Tapestry of Memories The poem, “My Mother Pieced Quilts,” by Teresa Palomo Acosta, focuses on the mother’s talent for weaving memories out of old fabric that is otherwise useless. The cloth has come from many different sources, each with it’s own nostalgic significance-communion dresses, wedding gowns, nightclothes, and “dime store velvets” (Acosta, “My Mother Pieced Quilts”, Exploring Poetry, Explanation). Each loose strip of fabric reminds the narrator of her childhood memories-the good ones and the bad. “They were just meant as covers”… (line 1) says the narrator. However, the “October ripened canvases” (line 6) that the narrator awoke to each morning me