Fairmaid

I go down to the punt-trench and I beg the water people. Help me, I say. I throw eggs — fresh eggs — in the black water. It was to feed the fairmaids.

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The only trouble was that he had to pass a koker, and people said that at night when everyone was asleep and the moon had gone in, the fairmaids came out to sit on the koker to comb their long hair.

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Traditionally, fairmaids transform mediocrity into genius. Goodison's female persona presents a facade of hesitancy; she appears to negate her powers: "It is difficult at first, learning to breathe below water / to convert the lungs meant only for inhalation on earth"

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Fairmaid is a soft pink flower, very pleasing.

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