Lunchtime lecture Flashcards
1
Q
A white…
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fine skull, full up with darkness As a shell with sea, drowned in the centuries.
2
Q
Small, perfect
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The cranium would fit the palm of a man’s hand.
3
Q
Some plague…
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or violence Destroyed her, and her whiteness lay safe in a shroud of silence
4
Q
(Till a tractor in Summer) broke
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open the grave and let a crowd of light Stare in at her, and she stared quietly back
5
Q
Here in the
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Museum, like death in hospital
6
Q
Left, only
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her bone// Purity the light and shade beauty
7
Q
the perfect edge
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Where the pieces join, with no mistake
8
Q
She is a
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tree in winter, stripped white on a black sky
9
Q
I, at some
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other season, illustrate the tree
10
Q
We stare at
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each other, dark into sightless Dark, seeing only ourselves in the black pools…
