Dawn-washed workers
At the
Pickers packed in a trailer
Tea and sugar
In a kerchief wrap
Bread and jam
Woodbine in a paper pack
Hired by the day
Fruitfields
Rows in regulations
Rank and file
Staff and string supported
Bowed and bent
Fruit peeking
Among the dew-dampened leaves
Fingers sensing, seeking
Grasping, plucking
Gutties squelching, elevated
By the cloying soil
Row after row after row.
Three pence a punnet.