The Thing About Night

[savannah]

Thank you so much for your comments here Erthona. Todd made excellent points and I still need to respond to his edits as well, but here are are my inputs on what you've asked.

savannah,

Welcome to the site.

Todd makes excellent points and I concur with them all. 

" I never looked at a rearview mirror  (rear-view)
without a speckle."

Question, I'm not really making sense of this line. Do you mean "speckle" as: 'a small speck, spot, or mark, as on skin.' Is there an alternate meaning?

It means I have never looked back at my past and found it to be perfect (speckless), meaning I will always have regrets. The first stanza indicates how night casts light on these mistakes.
Another problematic line for me is:

"but they shine brighter
on those stitches, undone."

What is undone and if it is 'stitches,' the meaning eludes me.

I guess S2 and S3 are kind of where I have lost my footing and I have made it hard to understand? I am basically trying to say that "day" glosses over these regrets/worries and you tend to ruminate over them less. Ironing out those worries during the day is what the stitch refers to? I know, I know. It must seem incredibly abstract and I apologize. I may have to seriously re-think my metaphors. 
The poem tries to say that night time is when most people reflect and when their sorrow magnifies. Morning tends to bring some hope. 
I did not want to use the typical sunshine metaphor since I felt it was cliched. I used seamstress because it referred to fixing loose ends, even if temporarily. 

Lastly, thank you for your patience in reading this, and apologies if my work comes across as lazy.
Anyway a solid effort.

best,

dale