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Three of My Sisters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

Lydia Johnson-Hill
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      Sister Lewis sits
      pedaling her rusty sewing machine
      in her dark and tiny hut
      in the hills of Jamaica.
      Only the thinnest sliver of light
      filters through the one paneless window.
      Sister Lewis is making children's dresses
      for the wealthy.
      From early morning till the last light slips
      behind the hills she sews
      back hunched eyes straining
      fingers flying feet pedaling.
      She is surrounded in the dark and dank by
      piles of colorful cloth
      the pastels, the lacy frills with which
      we happily dress our little white girls.
      She sews well.

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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , 1995 , pp. 25 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 1995

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