Burning Nettles Flashcards
1
Q
Beech trees
A
observe foresight of autumn wrinkling their leaves
2
Q
The scythe
A
bleeds ancient herbs whose odours come as ghosts to disturb memory
3
Q
The wind
A
Changed from the east
4
Q
I lift
A
an exhausted moth… It lives to die of cold
5
Q
only
A
soil survives
6
Q
Fire buried
A
in flower-heads makes bright ritual of decay
7
Q
Transubstantiates
A
the green leaf to fertility
