Jackie kay

Question 1

A door opens and closes. time is outside waiting.

Answer 1

Keeping orchids

Question 2

There are parents in the world whose faces turn up to see the light who speak in soft murmurs of rivers and never shout

Answer 2

Dicorce

Question 3

Massive leatherbacks

Answer 3

Gap Year

Question 4

You are rough and wild

Answer 4

Divorce

Question 6

Soaking my chest of drawers

Answer 6

Keeping orchids

Question 7

You arrived late

Answer 7

Gap year

Question 8

Am a burden tae her

Answer 8

Bed

Question 9

I would be better off in an orphanage’

Answer 9

Divorce

Question 11

Compressed. airtight

Answer 11

Keeping Orchids

Question 12

He canny see anything

Answer 12

Gap Year

Question 13

Trying to imagine you in your bed

Answer 13

Gap year

Question 14

Put in the basket

Answer 14

Gap year

Question 15

Troubled hands

Answer 15

Keeping orchids

Question 16

My heart sores like the birds in your bright blue skies. my love glows like the sunrise over the lost city

Answer 16

Gap Year

Question 17

I close my eyes and try to remember exactly

Answer 17

Keeping orchids

Question 18

Great tent o’ nappy

Answer 18

Bed

Question 19

These parents are not you i never chose you

Answer 19

Divorce

Question 20

The kerrs have disappeared

Answer 20

Bed

Question 21

You were dreaming

Answer 21

Gap Year

Question 22

A’ took a pride in ma guid smooth skin.)

Answer 22

Bed

Question 23

Buds became closed

Answer 23

Keeping orchids

Question 24

Pu’ ma cardie tight

Answer 24

Bed

Question 25

Grapes have no immagination

Answer 25

Lucozade

Question 26

Her train station to mine then home

Answer 26

Keeping orchids

Question 27

Time is whit A’ hauld between the soft bits o’ ma thumbs,

Answer 27

Bed

Question 28

You were lying cross-legged with an index finger resting sophisticatedly on one cheek

Answer 28

Gap year

Question 29

Want her guilty

Answer 29

Bed

Question 30

High bed

Answer 30

Lucozade

Question 31

Don’t bring magazines, too much about size.

Answer 31

Lucozade

Question 32

Father, your breath smells like a camel’s and gives me the hump

Answer 32

Divorce

Question 32

I have a son out in the big wide world

Answer 32

Gap year

Question 33

I carry the orange nostalgia home singing an old song

Answer 33

Lucozade

Question 34

That’s no seen a lick o’ paint fir donkeys

Answer 34

Bed

Question 35

Bags full, Lucozade, Grapes, oranges, sad chrysanthemums under my arms

Answer 35

Lucozade

Question 36

I dont want to be your child

Answer 36

Divorce

Question 37

She nods off and her eyes go back in her head

Answer 37

Lucozade

Question 38

I want a divorce

Answer 38

Divorce

Question 38

The skeleton

Answer 38

BED

Question 39

I turn around, wave with her flowers

Answer 39

Lucozade

Question 40

‘I did not promise to stay with you till death do us part’

Answer 40

Divorce