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A Poem for Women in Prison

Aztec Love Song for Uprooted Flowers

I’m delighted that Helen Ivory’s poetry and prose webzine – ink, sweat and tears have today published my poem –

Aztec Love Song for Uprooted Flowers

I carry them to your house on my back,
uprooted flowers.
I am bent double with the weight of them,
of women torn from the soil, their roots mud
stem and sepal crushed
I carry them. I carry their scent…

read the complete poem HERE

The poem will be part of a collection of prose and poetry – Going In With Flowers – a prison memoir – to be published by Linen Press later this year….

Image from Unsplash – the brilliant Annie Spratt

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