Dusty tins of condensed milk in the pantry.
Scholl slip on wooden sandals in the porch.
The blue labels worn down so only a soft oval remains in the wooden sole.
Tip toe hanging up the washing and the sandals falling down off dry heels.
Your life mapped by the cracks on your skin.
A drum of stagnant water in the corner of the steading.
Wellingtons with waterproofs wound around in the utility room.
Two sets of different ones, occasional and everyday wear.
Smelling of the black rubber cover over the silage pit and the cold stone ramp of the
midden.
Your life lived between the two.
A tree house made of old fence posts in Back Field.
Bare-feet drumming through the dust of the lane. Creosote sticking to the backs of knees.
Cow muck with a crust on top to poke with your toes, daring, pushing to see how far you
will go.
I never gave a thought then to how far we may go.
Elisabeth Kelly is an Early Years Teacher based on a hill farm in the Scottish Borders. She lives with her young family and too many animals. She has recently returned to writing. She has a poem currently in the Longlist for the Anthony Cronin Award at the Wexford Literary Festival 2020. She tweets at @eekelly22.
Deborah Guzzi writes full time and travels for inspiration. Her third book The Hurricane is available through Prolific Press and at 
Rachel Bower is a poet and research fellow at the University of Leeds. Her pamphlet, Moon Milk, will be published with Valley Press in May 2018. She is currently co-editing an anthology with Helen Mort entitled Verse Matters, which is out with Valley Press in November 2017. Her book, Epistolarity and World Literature, 1980-2010 will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in August 2017. Rachel’s poems have been published by Stand Magazine, BBC Radio, Now Then Magazine, Valley Press, Three Drops Press, The Stare’s Nest, Pankhearst and others, and she has had poems shortlisted for several prizes, including The London Magazine Poetry Prize and the Plough Prize 2016. She is also the founder of Verse Matters, a feminist arts collective in Sheffield.
Caitlin Johnson holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Her work has appeared in Carcinogenic Poetry, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Narrative Northeast, Pembroke Magazine, Vagina: The Zine, and Wild Quarterly, among other outlets. A chapbook, Boomerang Girl, was published in 2015 by Tiger’s Eye Press, and a full-length collection, Gods in the Wilderness, was published in 2016 by Pink.Girl.Ink. Press.
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