Dry Bed
The decline edged one closer
To a traditional local washing place in a stream;
Remembered, fêted, a focal
Point, its heritage immortalised, preserved…
Thus I sauntered closer
One dawning, fawning, sunlit September day,
To an encrusted and dusted dry
Bed, its heritage compromised, not conserved…
Pete Ray
October 2018
Where Boisson’s women would once wash clothes in a stream.
I have seen the stream running before now but in September 2018, the bed was dry…
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