Lizz Murphy - Poem 209: Lilt xxiv. Hard life

Photographed at the Ulster Folk Museum

LILT xxiv.

 

HARD LIFE

A woman with a hard life on

her face and a note in her hand

I have two children in Poland

mistakes me for the rich as I 

dream on the precision of Watermarks

at the window of The Pen Shop

How can I tell her

I'm just a writer