Maggie Rainey-Smith
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    • Quite an Assistant (The Coroner's Report)
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Formica (a continuation)

eggs separating
butter creaming

beatings from
a wooden spoon

lemonade bottle
rolling pastry

on a kitchen table
roll your owns

teapot stewing
on a stovetop

sponges proved
on a hearth

kindling in
a coal bucket

on the path
his bike

beside the fridge
his flagons

in the ditch
his bike

Life with Dexter
Its
in
the
bag

Your reflection
in linoleum

Portia Faces Life
you
polish
the
floor

blue & yellow
Zig Zag papers

Greys tobacco
brown fingers

mainly cryptic
cross words

washing in
the copper

R I N S O

she could
climb through
a broom

he could stand
on his head by
the door

They both rolled
their own.
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  • Home
  • Biography
  • Books
    • Daughters of Messene
    • Turbulence
    • About turns
  • Poems
    • At Katherine's Bay
    • After the storm
    • By the yellow gingham chair
    • Cross Country
    • Formica (a continuation)
    • Life of a working girl
    • Love in the Fifties
    • Menopause
    • Mother-in-law to newborn granddaughter
    • Mulling it Over
    • Ngawhatu
    • Quite an Assistant (The Coroner's Report)
    • That summer
    • The Death Ride
  • Book Reviews
  • Blog
  • Twitter