And mains water

My pretty

You want a shower

My Pretty?

Go out in the rain.

Tin bath

If you're lucky

be first in.

Pretty cold

if you're the last

Pretty filthy

My pretty

You're sleeping

On straw

Chuck over a coat

Left from a war.

Oven shelf 

My pretty is

Toasting

Your health

You know the cold

My pretty

When your potty

My pretty

Has frozen

Hard.

Group poem

Farming Life Centre

2015

Tom, Bill and Graham at the Farming Life Centre, Blackwell

From the arthur+martha project Stitching the Wars. A Two year collaboration with older people in Derbyshire, producing two embroidered quilts, a book, interviews and a series of poems. 

More poems found here. A short documentary film about the project found here.