Jacqueline Schaalje
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Wind-up people
by Jacqueline Schaalje — Coffee and cakes comforted us that morning. / The seam of her knickers rolled out / like spilt milk so I did some mending. / Stay for lunch, my mother said, but I left, / satisfied her clock was ticking