The thorny bird

The Thorny Bird

I am the 80s mother
The paint on badly plastered walls
A crooked hinge on a faded door
That stain on the carpet
The weeding back yard
A wildly coloured living room
I am the squaw with the wolf
The mother doubled over with groceries
Fumbling for bus change
The x wife under construction
A waitress run off her feet
The drop-out school girl on the factory floor
The teenage girl in the labour ward
I am the morning news and
The evening weather,
I am me
Warrior of omens
I am me
Woman
She