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Women Against Pit Closures
by Sarah Wimbush
Women on the picket line at the Orgreave Coking Plant near Rotherham, June 6 1984

She blooms
badged and blue-jeaned
in the sunshine.

In the shadows -
her husband
her father
her sons,

the gate
the hearth
the alarm clock, ringing.

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