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I remember them - winter boots

1960,
I remember them - winter boots
I remember them - winter boots
I remember them - winter boots
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Item no
39833
Title
I remember them - winter boots
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.

'I remember them'

'I'm losing things; people, places, bits of me.
So when they come, they show me snaps,
and the sad-eyed woman
says, Remember
when ...

She lays down pictures; cheerful girls,
in muddy boots. I smile at the faces,
and those boots, and I do
recall ... something.

They're all me, the sad-eyed
woman says, pointing at
the girls.

Me, growing up,
Mum.'

By Ronnie Mackintosh

Image: Winter boots 1960 -1997
Date
1960
Location
Museum of Childhood