poems

Question 1

name 4 quotes from originally

Answer 1

‘my tongue shedding its skin like a snake’
‘my parents anxiety stirred like a loose tooth in my head’
‘originally and i hesitate’
‘all childhood is emigration’

Question 2

name 4 quotes from valentine

Answer 2

‘i give you an onion’
‘not a red rose or a satin heart’
‘i am trying to be truthful’
‘it’s scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife’

Question 3

name 4 quotes from war photographer

Answer 3

‘preparing to intone a mass’
‘spools of suffering’
‘impassively….they do not care’
‘running children in a nightmare heat’

Question 4

name 4 quotes from the first half of mrs midas

Answer 4

‘say in his palm like a lightbulb’
‘strange, wild vain’
‘spitting out the teeth of the rich’
‘look we all have wished granted but who has wishes granted’

Question 5

name 4 quotes from the second half of mrs midas

Answer 5

‘turning the spare room into the tomb of Tutankhamen’
‘we were passionate then’
‘can live with a heart of gold’
‘i miss most even now, his hands, his warm hands on my skin, his touch’

Question 6

name 4 quotes from the way my mother speaks

Answer 6

‘the day and ever, the day an ever’
‘the way i say things when i think’
‘like a child who stood at the end of summer’
‘i am homesick, free, in love with the way my mother speaks’

Question 7

name 4 quotes from mrs tilchers class

Answer 7

‘a rough boy told you how you were born’
‘the classroom glowed like a sweet shop’
‘heavy, sexy, sky’
‘impatient to be grown’