Spinning

"Épinoy" means "a place where spinning is done."
Or so I guessed. "Épin" ... French for "spinning"?
A village where women and girls
Once sat at their wheels,
Spinning fibers into thread,
Like Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.

Did they talk and daydream
Of boys and men?
The girls, of the boyfriends
They hoped to find someday?
The women, of husbands
Who had gone off to war?

The Earth too spins, counting off the days
Until the year is 1944.
On a winter's day, in weather too foul for flying
A mid-air collision
Sends my uncle, age 25
And on his first mission
Spinning down to Earth.  He crashes, dying
In Épinoy, when his spinning is done.