online groceries
because crates of water are heavy
tiny lady delivers
© Rachel Green April 2026
Clippers
She left school at fourteen
disposed of her exercise books
and the essay about Tennyson
and went to work at a stables.
She cycled to work every day
four miles, rain or shine
shovelled manure and boiled tripe
for the boarded dogs
while their owners went to Tenerife
or the Canary Islands.
She learned to ride horses
cross-country and show jumping
worked her way up the competitive ladder
while the girls she was at school with
drove their own cars and left their horses
for her to rub down and clean tack.
And when her mother died
married a man her father's age.
© Rachel Green April 2026
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