sat in crumbling doorways, wore sacking aprons and men’s flat caps. Narrowed eyes watched customers pick through old linen, chipped china. Sometimes, a market stall— more often a tablecloth on the damp pavement— apples or eggs or trinkets, field flowers, children’s clothes, mended pots and pans. Each woman smoked a clay pipe, the bowl turned […]
Pen Kease
Pen Kease, MA, has been published in The Interpreter’s House, Blue Nib, and The Recusant, among others. She lives near Oxford, England.