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That Woman

SARA POLSKY

Since November, I’ve struggled to write about the people I met while canvassing for Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania. Inspired by Rachel’s tenacity with her writing, I kept tackling the topic and ended up with this poem.

The woman who came to the door

in Lancaster County said no,

no one in that house

would speak with us,

ever, and how dare we

come around seeking votes

for That Woman. That woman,

she hissed, and her lip curled

and her door closed

and her daughter,

the one on our voter list,

looked at us and away.

And all these months later,

I still think about

that woman, still wonder

at the force of her anger,

at how stunned I was,

that day, to meet it.