Debbie Schnitzer is a Winnipeg prize winning poet and novelist and a wondrously imaginative educator. She has long been devoted to working in classroom and community settings. A member of the River on the Run Artist Collective, Debbie is a participant of the story of the poetry house on the Red River.
(Stories) Poetry|washing women
water woman has a sister
sisters actually hearing
her anguish at night
in the tide torn moon
light lying low
over scum unlit algae sick
lake spread spit sired
by hoarse highrising
mindmilkers
breastspocket
profit poofs
pigpenned
margin
shat
careening
waterwomen subaltern
sisters with standing
pin money taped to broadthighs
buckets not meant for slop
depigging surfaces
with cloths torn from hope chests
sewn in secret as women are
pigs campcaptive
stalled mechanicals
meat cured treats
processing binges
without regulation
without her swell times
waterwoman calls
in her moon
for sisterly affection
well women
their longtime
carry
in godown water
clean
supplies
green ink
wetnursing trusted
intentioned windowmakers
elbowing bluegreen
scummaking maniacs
formula fakers
spitpolish washing
women
wringing the lake
so it might sing
Talking Water Project|Debbie Schnitzer (2013)
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