Manifest: Woodbridge, 1843

By | 7 May 2025

(for my Great Great Grandmother Sarah)

a bolt of fabric meets a pocket of lace
in Van Diemen’s stolen land

a drunken husband
and children left in Spitalfields

The slip of waves )

o c e a n s of grief wide )
sink
you

setter of sails ) launching )

a new family
patched, from
dregs

& paper boats
billow me

into
being

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