Mrs Midas Flashcards
Loss
“Separate beds”
“now I feared his honeyed embrace”
“I dreamt I bore his child”
“so he had to move out”
“I miss most even now, his hands, his warm hands on my skin, his touch”
Memory
“I miss most even now, his hands, his warm hands on my skin, his touch”
“we were passionate then in those halcyon days”
Growing up / transition / change
“Separate beds”
“now I feared his honeyed embrace”
“so he had to move out”
Painful experiences
“my dream milk burned in my breasts”
“once a bowl of apples stopped me dead”
Relationships
“we were passionate then in those halcyon days”
“now I feared his honeyed embrace”
“I miss most even now, his hands, his warm hands on my skin, his touch”
The senses
“The kitchen filled with the smell of itself”
“Now the garden was long and the visibility poor”
Contrast
“a beautiful lemon mistake”
Imagery
“my dream milk burned in my breasts”
“turning the spare room into the tomb of Tutankhamun”
“the lips that turned my lips into a work of art”
“unwrapping each other, rapidly, like presents, fast food”
Character
“I locked the cat in the cellar”
“so he had to move out”
Setting
“the dark of the ground seems to drink the light of the sky”
“I drove him up under the cover of dark”
