My mothers pieced quilts what are the two images in the poem

The poem is about the relationship of a nostalgic lyric self with his mother, who was a seamstress. A first image is found in the following fragment:

/ how the thread darted in and out

galloping along the frayed edges /

She exercises her trade with a thread that seems to gallop on the cloth.

Then, a very evocative image that describes his mother / you were the river current

carrying the roaring notes forming them into pictures of a little boy reclining

a swallow flying /.

In both cases, the visual aspect is used to improve the lyric quality

the answer is emerged from.

orpheus descended to hades, the world of the death to rescue eurydice. no mortal had ever done this before him, he survived because he was protected by the gods. the word "underworld" gives us a clue, he emerged from it like a whale emerges form sea for exemple.