English Love and Romance ( Platonic ) Flashcards
Mother, any distance - “the line still feeding out, unreeling ( ? )”
“the line still feeding out, unreeling years between us. Anchor. Kite”
Mother, any distance - “your fingertips still pinch the ( ? ) of an inch…”
“your fingertips still pinch the last one-hundredth of an inch…”
Mother, any distance - “I reach towards a ( ? ) on an endless sky to ( ? ) .”
“I reach towards a hatch that opens on an endless sky to fall or fly.”
Walking Away - “like a satellite ( ? ) , go drifting away”
“like a satellite Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away”
Walking Away - “ Like a winged seed ( ? ) ,”
” Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem,”
Follower - “( ? ) like a full sail strong…”
“Shoulders globed like a full sail strong…”
Follower - “All I ever did was ( ? ) “
Follower - “All I ever did was follow in his broad shadow”
Follower - “But today… it is my father who keeps ( ? ) “
“But today… it is my father who keeps stumbling behind me”
Letters from Yorkshire - “who sends me ( ? ) “
“who sends me word of that other world”
Letters from Yorkshire - “pouring ( ? ) into an envelope”
“pouring air and light into an envelope”
Letters from Yorkshire - “Is your life ( ? ) because you ( ? )”
“Is your life more real because you dig and sow”
Letters from Yorkshire - “our ( ? ) across the icy miles”
“our souls tap messages across the icy miles”
Before You Were Mine - “Your ( ? ) blows round your legs. ( ? ) “
“Your polka-dot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn”
Before You Were Mine - “in the ballroom with the ( ? ) “
“in the ballroom with the thousand eyes”
Before You Were Mine - “The decade ahead of my ( ? ) “
“The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell”
