Sarah St Vincent Welch #59 Ironing

Ironing board  cover design by Remo c1985

housework

appalls, cleaning up

sucks into the maw of Dis

the job of the female there’s no Zen

to find, getting dirty over again, but in ironing is

redemption, sizzle spit on metal bubble slide steam

linen preen and fold to crease edge glide the kind

woman who talked to lonely children

as she worked wiry Mrs Fitz who

won the lottery twice she
did the ironing