{"id":24853,"date":"2021-04-26T13:56:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=24853"},"modified":"2022-04-25T12:11:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T19:11:58","slug":"a-lazy-sunday-for-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=24853","title":{"rendered":"A Lazy Sunday For Her"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"662\" class=\"wp-image-24858 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Lazy-Sunday-for-Her-1024x662.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Lazy-Sunday-for-Her-1024x662.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Lazy-Sunday-for-Her-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Lazy-Sunday-for-Her-768x497.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Lazy-Sunday-for-Her-1536x994.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Lazy-Sunday-for-Her.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Lazy Sunday For Her<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The single mother <br \/>Raising two busy children alone <br \/>Unable to find half a minute <br \/>In her day<br \/>to sweat and scrub down <br \/>the manky bathroom.<br \/>To your pristine whims.<br \/>Today is for her.<br \/>A lazy Sunday,<br \/>Just washing her own hair.<br \/>And sitting in the Sun.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the woman.<br \/>Young of years.<br \/>Aged by everything.<br \/>Working two and a half baked jobs<br \/>To pay for her degree.<br \/>And keep.<br \/>Today is for her.<br \/>A lazy kind of Sunday,just clipping<br \/>and painting <br \/>her chipped toe nails.<br \/>In the shade of a tree.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And her, <br \/>The always hurried sister. <br \/>Living on the edge <br \/>of perpetual panic.<br \/>Who\u2019s learnt to make three pieces<br \/>Of chicken stew <br \/>From one drumstick.<br \/>And not distress.<br \/>Because yes, she\u2019s the bread maker.<br \/>No.<br \/>The bread winner.<br \/>Both.<br \/>Today, the sink full of dirty dishes. <br \/>That\u2019s hers. <br \/>A lazy Sunday.<br \/>Doing nothing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the mother,<br \/>Daily kept busy at covering up. <br \/>Her unexpected joblessness.<br \/>Wearing it over and over,<br \/>in threadbare dignity. <br \/>Averting your mean spirited judgement <br \/>Of living in her unfinished dream home.<br \/>Where, every May winter moves in.<br \/>uninvited.<br \/>And settles itself fat and cold.<br \/>On gravel floors,<br \/>Un-plastered walls.<br \/>Today\u2019s lonely, dust free broomstick is her<br \/>lazy Sunday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so you see, <br \/>How your very many slurs<br \/>Of disorder. <br \/>Wait, instability.<br \/>All those other churls.<br \/>Chortling too. <br \/>About her different kinds of mess.<br \/>Is how life <br \/>Has refused to let her be<br \/>Everything<br \/>She imagined <br \/>For all of her many selves.<br \/>Including <br \/>A woman <br \/>with a very little bit of some laziness.<br \/>In her Sundays.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(C) Isabella Matambanadzo &#8211; April 25, 2021 (*written on a Sunday).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(By Isabella Matambanadzo)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Image Credit: Naume Chaota \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalgalleryofzimbabwe.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/artwork-of-week_10.html\">National Gallery of Zimbabwe<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lazy Sunday For Her The single mother Raising two busy children alone Unable to find half a minute In her dayto sweat and scrub down the manky bathroom.To your pristine whims.Today is for her.A lazy Sunday,Just washing her own hair.And sitting in the Sun. For the woman.Young of years.Aged by everything.Working two and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6590],"class_list":["post-24853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-isabella-matambanadzo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24853"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25954,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions\/25954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}