Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands by Sarah Wimbush

Author:Sarah Wimbush
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2022-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

And the husband who stands poker-straight, arms folded,

next to the scarlet push-me-up JJ cups.

Like his flaming bus is never going to come.

2:15 at Doncaster

I see them, there, on the turf

mingling with the top hats and touts,

jockeys’ silks, the roustabouts in neckerchiefs.

I spotted him immediately –

the wince in that listing gait,

his pelvis smashed beneath a bank of coal.

His daughter walks beside him

dark and slender in the purple dress.

I peer into the black and white screen –

Mum, can you see me?

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