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Shelling Peas \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The afternoon is woven thick from the Baptist church loudspeaker. we rock back and forth Abide With Me<\/em> Peas pop out, clatter in the bowl <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Susan Castillo Street<\/strong> is Harriet Beecher Stowe Professor Emerita, King\u2019s College, University of London.\u00a0 She has published three collections of poems, The Candlewoman’s Trade<\/em> (Diehard Press, 2003), Abiding Chemistry,<\/em>\u00a0 (Aldrich Press, 2015), and Constellations<\/em> (Three Drops Press, 2016), as well as several scholarly monographs and edited anthologies. Her poems have appeared in Southern Quarterly, Ink Sweat & Tears, Messages in a Bottle, The Missing Slate, Clear Poetry, Three Drops from a Cauldron, Foliate Oak, The Yellow Chair Review<\/em>, and other journals and anthologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shelling Peas \u00a0 The afternoon is woven thick with mauve wisteria scent, the buzzing of cicadas.\u00a0 Across the street, hymns blare from the Baptist church loudspeaker. Rock of Ages, Blest for Me Onward Christian Soldiers On Grandmother\u2019s front porch, we rock back and forth shelling peas, sliding a thumbnail down central seams […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13197,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions\/13197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwith mauve wisteria scent,
\nthe buzzing of cicadas.\u00a0 Across the street, hymns blare<\/p>\n
\nRock of Ages, Blest for Me<\/em>
\nOnward Christian Soldiers<\/em>
\nOn Grandmother\u2019s front porch,<\/p>\n
\nshelling peas, sliding a thumbnail
\ndown central seams of leathery green,
\nfanning out the skins.<\/p>\n
\nAlthough I Walk in Death\u2019s Dark Vale<\/em><\/p>\n
\nlike pirate coins as we continue rocking
\nback and forth, encased in sunlight,
\ndeath and war and crucifixions.<\/p>\n