Neighbours Flashcards
1
Q
That spring
A
was late
2
Q
Birds were
A
late to pair. Crows drank from the lamb’s eye.
3
Q
Wing-beats failed
A
over fjords, each lung a sip of gall.
4
Q
Children were warned
A
of their dangerous beauty.
5
Q
a mouthful of
A
bitter air from the Ukraine// brought by the wind out of its box or sorrows
6
Q
A child,
A
lifting her face to drink the rain, takes into her blood the poison arrow.
7
Q
Now we
A
are all neighbour, each little town in Europe twinned to Chernobyl
8
Q
glasnost
A
golau glas// a first break of blue
