The snow women of Ispwich

Lived during the last ice age 

In an area they had no idea would one day have a football club called Ipswich town 

They didn’t know about the blues from the Mississippi Delta

Or fast fibre broadband

They did know how to track eke in the snow 

And keep warm in the depths of an unforgiving winter 

They Knew the secret of fire 

And the phases of the moon 

Because of the land bridge they did nt live on an island and would wonder though England, France and Spain as if it was one vast country 

With no passport control or or facial recognition scans

Ipswich was was only one of the places they called home 

And home was anywhere you could make camp 

All they left were footprints 

Now long vanished 

No that’s not quite true they left ancestors

From Inverness to the Caspian Sea

I am sure one of them is me 

But I ve never been to Ipswich