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Vespers - keeping warm in winter, swan feather muff

1880,
Vespers - keeping warm in winter, swan feather muff
Vespers - keeping warm in winter, swan feather muff
Vespers - keeping warm in winter, swan feather muff
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Item no
39830
Title
Vespers - keeping warm in winter, swan feather muff
Description
The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.

'Vespers'

'Coo, pigeon, coo!
Your feathery chest
nestled in my palms
heats my hands
though tonight's wintry light
is dim and the rain's
speckled with hail.

My lady's on the ice
in her lamb's wool coat,
white on white,
fingers folded, snug
in her swan down muff,
while you and I...

Go, pigeon. Take to the sky.
White dove and snow feathers fly!'

By Carol McKay

Image: Swan feather muff 1880s
Date
1880
Location
Museum of Childhood