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Discovery - Relating Poems to Quotes Flashcards

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1
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Close his bed and rattle up the sash…/there’s sunlight rotating/off the drab carpet. And the water sways/solidly in its silver bowl, so cold

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Journey: The North Coast

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One of those bright crockery days/so I recall

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Journey: The North Coast

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Flees on the blue and silver paddock,/ over fences that look split from stone,/and banks of fern,/a red bank, full of roots,/ over dark creeks, where logs are fallen,/ and blackened tree trunks.

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Journey: The North Coast

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As a nude descends a staircase,/ slender white eucalyptus

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Journey: The North Coast

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And now the country bursts open on the sea…/across a calico beach unfurled,

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Journey: The North Coast

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Hair/Ruffled a bit, stow the book and wash-bag/and city clothes. Everything done, press down/ the latches into the case

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Journey: The North Coast

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That for twelve months have been standing out/ of a morning, above the wardrobe/ in a furnished room.

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Journey: The North Coast

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As it goes up/ onto the huge dark harbour

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Late Ferry

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Beyond a gangling jetty…beyond street light’s fluorescence…beyond the tomato stake patch

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Late Ferry

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The longer white lights/feel nervously about in the blackness/towards here, like hands/after the light switch

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Late Ferry

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The ferry is drawn along/polished marble, to be lost soon

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Late Ferry

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A Busby Berkeley spectacular/with thousands in frenzied far off/choreography, in their silver lame/the Bridge like a giant prop

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Late Ferry

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This does seem in a movie theatre/the boat is small as a moth

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Late Ferry

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I’ll lose sight of the ferry soon…/I can find it while it’s on darkness

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Late Ferry

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The hot fertilizer-thick,/ sticky stench of blood/sent flies mad,

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The Meatworks

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Arm-thick corkscrews, grinding around inside it, meat or not…/chomping bloody mouth…

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The Meatworks

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White-bruising beach

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The Meatworks

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There was a flaw to the analogy…the way those pigs stuck there, clinging to each other

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The Meatworks

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We got meat to take home
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most of them

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The Meatworks

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I usually didn’t take the meat

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The Meatworks

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Caught, where the only work/was at this Works.

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The Meatworks

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But after sticking your hands all day/in snail sheened flesh,/ you found, around the nails, there was still blood.

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The Meatworks

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I’d scoop up shell-grit/and scrub my hands.

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The Meatworks

24
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Treading about/through the icy ledges of the surf

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The Meatworks

25
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Working with meat was like burning the live bush…and fertilizing with rottenness/for the frail money

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The Meatworks

26
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But I settled for one of the lowest paying jobs, making mince

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The Meatworks

27
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Out beside the highway, the first thing in the morning/nothing much in my pockets but sand

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North Coast Town

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Car after car now…it’s like a boxer/warming up with the heavy bag, spitting air

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North Coast Town

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Tattoos and greasy Fifties pompadour/ Rev in High Street, drop their first can./Plastic pennants on the distilled morning, everywhere;

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North Coast Town

30
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A dog trotting and someone hoses down a pavement;/our image flaps in shop fronts; smoking on

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North Coast Town

31
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The Odeon,/A warehouse picture show

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North Coast Town

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The place is becoming chrome,/tile facing and plate glass, they’re making California;

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North Coast Town

33
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pass an Abo, not attempting to hitch, outside town

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North Coast Town

34
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Like fingers spread and dragged to smudge:/it is a rubbish dump, always burning

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Flames and Dangling Wire

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A waterbird lifts above this swamp/as a turtle on the Galapagos Islands

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Flames and Dangling Wire

36
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All the air wobbles/in a cheap mirror

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Flames and Dangling Wire

37
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Amongst these vast grey plastic sheets of heat/shadowy figures

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Flames and Dangling Wire

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Everywhere…it is…always…endless

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Flames and Dangling Wire

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And there are others moving…scavengers

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Flames and Dangling Wire

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As in hell the devils/might poke about through our souls, after scraps/of appetite

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Flames and Dangling Wire

41
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Seem to be wandering, in despondence, with an eternity

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Flames and Dangling Wire

42
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We

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Flames and Dangling Wire

43
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And standing where I see the mirage of the city/I realise that am in the future…it will be made of things that worked

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Flames and Dangling Wire

44
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A labourer hoists an unidentifiable mulch…throws it on the flame…like the rag held up in “the Raft of Medusa”

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Flames and Dangling Wire

45
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Diptych

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Diptych

46
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(…Raft of sap-oozing fiber,/ from which he’d climbed down, unharmed, his soberly polite,/had doffed his hat..)

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Diptych

47
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Of a small lizard, dragged through her lips. That bitterness, I used to imagine;/she running onto the verandah to spit,/and standing there, spat dry, seeing across the silent, frosty bush

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Diptych

48
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Back, step by step, she forced it, through the broken fence,/ it bellowing and hooking either side sharply at her all the way

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Diptych

49
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let it have few bloody flowers, Mum.”/ No. She locked the broom handle straight-armed across its nose

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Diptych

50
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I sway, for those little flimsy leaves/ she fell to at once, small as mouse prints, among the chopped-up loam.

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Diptych

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The gentleman, after all, is only known,/only exists, through manner. He himself had the most perfect manners,/ of a kind.

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Diptych

52
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After all, he was a university man/(although ungraduated), something more rare then./ MY father, I see was hopelessly melancholic…

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Diptych

53
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He often drank alone…wear a carefully considered tie/to get drunk in the sandhills, watching the sea.

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Diptych

54
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He advised me, pointing around, “when the sun is coming out of the sea, standing among/that lifting timber, you can feel at peace.”

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Diptych

55
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Was as strongly-spiked as the one/on his infantry badge

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Diptych

56
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I had accepted him…and I’d come by then to see that we all inhabit pathos

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Diptych

57
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Sideways and pierced my hand…and so I dug with that one/into his ashes, which I found were like a mauvish-grey marble dust,/ and I felt I needn’t thank of anything more to say.

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Diptych

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