digging quotes Flashcards
1
Q
q1
A
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
2
Q
q2 under my window…
A
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:
My father, digging.
3
Q
q3 (by god..)
A
By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Just like his old man.
4
Q
q4 my grandfather cut…
A
My grandfather cut more turf in a day
Than any other man on Toner’s bog.
5
Q
q5 the cold smell…
A
The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat,
6
Q
q6 but i have no…
A
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.
7
Q
q7
A
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it.
