FemkuMag Haibun ~ Village Daughter-in-Law

Village Daughter-in-Law 


Early morning as I stand and watch this family beside the village pond, memories keep flooding back. A young woman in her twenties squats on a hardwood plank which slants into to water. She's washing clothes by the buckets for her extended family. A baby strapped to her back, a two year old on her right thigh on the other a three year old. Her four and five year olds play rinsing clothes on the edge where the plank submerges in the water. This chore done she starts her firewood stove preparing lunch, cleaning, ironing, dinner preparation it goes on.


play house
the one acting
mom 
always asks
where's the cane

~ Christina Chin





#FemkuMag Haibun Issue November 2019
Guest Editor Tia Haynes