potato

chunky, nobbly-eyed,

                                                               the potato says 'hi,


                                                                                                                              will you be my friend?'

lettuce

let us consider

the lettuce - dressed in matchless

red green salad-aptness

broccoli

thin dark leaves on
hunky trunky clumps of tree
o broccoloccoli!

courgette

a little courgette

zucchini, steamed boiled stuffed baked fried

goes a long way

blackcurrants

too sharp for birds

almost too heavy for branches –

blackcurrants

apple

out of twelve hundred
kinds of English apple
you plucked me

apricot

snug by the wall
the one the Pennine wind forgot
Todmorden's first apricot