Carson, Anne: Short Talk on Pain

Lawns  and  fields  and  hills  and  wide  old  velvet
sleeves, green things. They stretch, fold, roll away,
unfurl  and  calm the  eye.  Look  lush  in paintings.
Battles are fought on greens.  Or you could spread
a meal and sup.  How secretly  they  lie,  floors  of
distant forests.  Next  comes  the grave, in many a
poem about green. But this is not a poem. This is a
billboard for frozen green peas.  Frozen green peas
are good for pain.