The Work of Her That Went

The Work of Her That Went - meaning Summary

Domestic Labor as Cosmic Act

This short poem reframes a woman’s domestic labor as something both dignified and cosmically significant. The speaker names ordinary tasks’"work" and "toil"’and locates their culmination in a maternal figure who bakes in "ovens green" and by "fires of the Sun," connecting home-scale chores to natural, even solar processes. The lines compress everyday activity into an image of creation, suggesting that domestic work participates in larger cycles of nourishment and transformation rather than being merely private or trivial.