To Kath
WAAF conscript, greyhound-stadium cashier, legal secretary, debt collector, charity worker, critic, mother, friend-because everyone has a story
‘Home is a name, a word, it is a strong
one; stronger
than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever
answered to,
in the strongest conjuration’
Charles Dickens
‘A little water clears us of this deed’
Macbeth