Scything Flashcards
1
Q
There is
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work to be done
2
Q
The spring’s eye
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blind with algae, the stopped water silent.
3
Q
Dylan drags
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branches away. I wade forward with my scythe
4
Q
There is stickiness
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on the blade. Yolk on my hands.
5
Q
Fragments of
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shell are baby bones
6
Q
the scythe
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a scalpel, bloodied and guilty with crushed feathers
7
Q
we shout at
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each other, each hurting with a separate pain.
8
Q
the willow warbler
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drops. All day in silence she repeats her question
9
Q
I too return
A
to the place holding the pieces, at first still hot from the knife
10
Q
recall
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how warm birth fluids are
