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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
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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.
This hybrid rose -
her eyes, anthracite on fire
her lips, the curve of a pickaxe.
New Aphrodite.
One of the first
to clamber up, up, up
and over
the pit-yard wall.
Sarah Wimbush is a Yorkshire poet. Her first collection, Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands, was published by Bloodaxe in 2022. Her new collection, STRIKE (Stairwell, 2024) commemorates the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike 1984-85.
Poetry submissions to thursdaypoems@gmail.com
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