— after Ted Hughes’s “Wycoller Hall” Such sashaying of dresses through rooms Such varnish and floor polish So much sweeping mopping dusting So many murmured prayers So much outward reverence and inward doubt So much drying of eyes So much perseverance, so little income
Honestly feel like I lived an entire lifetime between the beginning and end of this poem. Plus, I now have the Lucinda Williams song “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” stuck on repeat in my head. Thanks for the trip❤️ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/rediscover-lucinda-williams-car-wheels-on-a-gravel-road/amp/