THE WAITRESSES
N the alp-white kitchen lurk three snow-women with blonde hair three not abominable, only stone and dead, and none to carve or bury them anywhere. * Marvellous in white at each meal they break through the opaque door that springs of a sudden back home sheathed like a claw in the snow-white wall. They do not see their face in the door nor read their death who play nursemaid to naked oyster and old man egg humpbacked and drained on a blanket-end of bread. Only bleached and dead the three cradle food that will first twist and break in their mouths : then flow through the heart and not ever fit or warm
the abominable winter shape of their thirst.
Janet
Frame
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 11
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122THE WAITRESSES New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 11
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