Heaney Flashcards
Forge # 1
“All I know is a door into the dark”
Forge # 2
“The anvil must be somewhere in the centre, Horned as a unicorn”
Forge # 3
“Set there immoveable: an altar”
Forge #4
“Where he expends himself in shape and music
A Constable Calls #1
“The pedal treads hanging relieved Of the boot of the law”
A Constable Calls #2
“…unstrapped The heavy ledger…Arithmetic and fear”
A Constable Calls # 3
“‘Any other root crops?’…‘No’But was there not a line Of turnips where the seed ran out”
A Constable Calls #4
Small guilty and sat Imagining the black hole in the barracks
Constable Calls #5
Closed the doomsday book
Constable Calls #6
And the bicycle ticked, ticked, ticked
The Skunk #1
“Night after night I expected her like a visitor”
The Skunk #2
“After eleven years I was composing Love Letters again, broaching the word ‘wife’”
The Skunk #3
“The aftermath of a mouthful of wine Was like inhaling you off a cold pillow”
The Skunk #4
“It all came back to me last night… Your head-down, tail-up hunt in a bottom drawer”
The Underground #1
“And me, me then like a fleet god gaining Upon you before you turned into a reed”
