April 10: Tin Bucket

[Martha]

Tin Bucket
Jenny George

The world is not simple.
Anyone will tell you.
But have you ever washed a person’s hair
over a tin bucket,
gently twisting the rope of it
to wring the water out?
At the end of everything,
dancers just use air as their material.
A voice keeps singing even
without an instrument.
You make your fingers into a comb.

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Also:
+ After Work, Richard Jones
+ A Metaphor, J. Estanislao Lopez

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Today's poem: Tin Bucket, Jenny George