She comes into the garden
to take the washing in.
She raises her arms
to her husband’s shirts
like a worshipper, and then
she makes a lovely pile of them.
Wings, sails, copes,
you are folded
and ready to be ironed ...
And now she stands, becalmed,
with the cold washing
cradled in her arms.
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