Post Script Flashcards
1
Q
Epiphany-
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and the burning of the poems with clippings of the hedge we laid last week
2
Q
All afternoon
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I put them to the fire
3
Q
handfuls of poems
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turned to vellum// each a small chimney for a twist of air
4
Q
then from each
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broken throat a gasp of flame
5
Q
There’s splendour
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there (both spellings) dew and dawn, love and philosophy and loss and lust.
6
Q
Some of your
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poems had no voice, but sing now with a little sigh of death
7
Q
scare
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as they couldn’t, docile on the page
8
Q
Your last poems
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burn. Out with the cliche, archaism, weed
9
Q
my mind’s
A
clean again. New year and a fired language is what we need.
