Supermarket
Today I buy the food bank
sliced peaches, oil-rich fish,
two cans of healthy baked beans
off the official list.
I bite green apple in the car,
read papers, pages skewed.
Those under siege live underground.
They only eat tinned food.
Alison Brackenbury
If you have any thoughts on this poem, Alison
Brackenbury would be pleased to hear them.