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Village Women

By on Sep 16, 2012 in Poetry | Comments Off

they carry water in pails on their heads dirty laundry in baskets to the spring sacks of corn and potatoes under arms they give birth after working all day in fields they paint their doors and windows a sea blue they sit at the loom at night so that they may have something to pass on to their children they wake before their husbands and they go to bed after their husbands they knead bread in the early morning they feed the chickens, pigs, goats they water the vegetable gardens they cook large meals on open flames they carry these large feasts to the fields they pick up, put down, wash up,...

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