Stealing Peas

Question 1

Warm evening

Answer 1

voices over clipped privet. Cut grass

Question 2

We crawled

Answer 2

in the pea-rows in a stolen green light

Question 3

We slit the skins

Answer 3

with bitten nails and slid peas down the chutes of our tongues.

Question 4

The little ones

Answer 4

were sweet. The big ones dusty and bitter

Question 5

Beyond the

Answer 5

freckled light of the allotment, the strawberry beds

Question 6

‘You’re prettier

Answer 6

she’s funnier.’ I wish I hadn’t asked.