scotlit, 28 days ago

Broad in the beam? More broad in sympathy.
Stiff in the joints? More flexible in mind.
Deaf on the right? New voices from the Left
In politics and art more clearly sound…

—Helen Cruickshank, “On Being Eighty”
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poetry
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/being-eighty/