"WASHING DAY"
             Rita Summers
                 c. 1996
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    The cormorants
    hang their feathers
    out to dry -
    black velvet rags
    showing threadbare
    in the wind.
    Like old women
    living in the past,
    they tend their
    tattered finery
    with talon fingers
    and black
    remembering eyes.
                             
                             
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