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Peas by Lorna Crozier

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20 August 2011

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Peas
Lorna Crozier

Peas never liked any of it.
They make you suffer for the sweet
burst of green in the mouth. Remember
the hours of shelling on the front steps,
the ping into the basin? Your mother
bribing you with lemonade to keep you there,
splitting them open with your thumbs.

Your tongue finds them clitoral
as it slides up the pod.
Peas are not amused.
They have spent all their lives
keeping their knees together.

MARGINALIA

Yes I have just discovered her, so here’s another poem that made me smile:

ABOUT LORNA CROZIER

Lorna Crozier’s latest poetry books is God of Shadows. An Officer of the Order of Canada she has received three awards for lifetime achievement, including BC’s Lieutenant Governor’s Award. Three-time winner of the Pat Lowther Award and four-time nominee for the Governor-General’s Award, which she won in 1992, she was recently honoured with China’s Chen Zi Ang Award for best international poet published in 2017 in China’s biggest literary periodical. Her 2020 memoir,

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