SST - Norman MacCaig Flashcards
“The dwarf with his hands on backwards”
Assisi
“slumped like a half-filled sack on tiny twisted legs from which sawdust might run”
Assisi
“outside the three tiers of churches built in honour of St Francis”
Assisi
“he had the advantage of not being dead yet.”
Assisi
“A priest explained how clever it was of Giotto”
Assisi
“I understood the explanation and the cleverness”
Assisi
“A rush of tourists, clucking contentedly, fluttered after him as he scattered the grain of the Word.”
Assisi
“It was they who passed the ruined temple outside”
Assisi
“said Grazie in a voice as sweet as a child’s when she speaks to her mother”
Assisi
“What seems a corpse is trundled into a lift and vanishes heavenward”
Visiting Hour
“I will not feel, I will not feel, until I have to.”
Visiting Hour
“their eyes still clear after so many farewells”
Visiting Hour
“She lies in a white cave of forgetfulness”
Visiting Hour
“A withered hand trembles on its stalk”
Visiting Hour
“And between her and me distance shrinks till there is none left but the distance that neither she nor I can cross”
Visiting Hour
