Poppies

Question 1

’‘______ days before _________ sunday’’

Answer 1

'’Three days before armistice sunday’’

Question 2

“All my words _________, ______, turned into ____.”

Answer 2

“All my words flattened, rolled, turned into felt.”

Question 3

“After you’d gone I went into your __________, _________ a __________ from its _____.”

Answer 3

“After you’d gone I went into your bedroom, released a songbird from its cage.”

Question 4

“I ________, hoping to hear your ____________ voice _________ in the ______.”

Answer 4

“I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching in the wind.”

Question 5

“I _______ one onto your lapel, _________ petals, ________ of paper ____, disrupting a __________ of _______ _____ binding around your _______.”

Answer 5

“I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer.”

Question 6

“the world ____________ like a __________ chest.”

Answer 6

“the world overflowing like a treasure chest.”