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Women Friends

Pauline Prior-Pitt

so

     easy to be with                you are

easy as the ebb
     and flow of tides             you are

     easy as melting snow     you are

wise women
           welcome as sunshine
                             spreading delight

Pauline Prior-Pitt

from Elsewhere (Spike Press, 2012)

Reproduced by permission of Pauline Prior-Pitt.

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Pauline Prior-Pitt

Pauline Prior-Pitt was born in Hull and moved to North Uist in 1997. Her poetry, often comic, looks at women, the ageing process, grandchildren, and at her adopted island home.
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