tears
cleanse stains on soiled linen--
Magdalene redress
dirty laundry--
Magdalene women get
state apology
© Máire Morrissey-Cummins
Taoiseach delivers state apology to Magdalene women
Máire is Irish, lives in Co. Wicklow and retired early from the Financial Sector. She is a member of Haiku Ireland and the Irish Haiku Society and has been published in Every Day Poets, New Ulster, Lynx, Sketchbook haiku, Notes from the Gean, A Hundred Gourds, Whirligig, The First Cut, Wordlegs, and Open Road Review.
