She's any woman

Lesley James

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She's Any Woman

Where a river halts a human flood,

A woman does her wash, in mud,

With stones she pummels out dark blood,

 

And as she stoops to make filth clean,

Subtitles blazon on my screetn,

“I had my own washing machine”.

 

©  Lesley James

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