The Emigrée

Question 1

‘There….’

Answer 1

‘There once was a country … I left it as a child

but my memory of it is sunlight-clear’

Question 2

‘The wo….’

Answer 2

‘the worst news I receive of it cannot break

my original view, the bright filled paperweight.’

Question 3

‘It ma….’

Answer 3

‘It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants,

but i am branded by an impression of sunlight.’

Question 4

‘the graceful….’

Answer 4

‘the graceful slopes

glow even clearer as time rolls its tanks’

Question 5

‘like a….’

Answer 5

‘like a hollow doll, opens a spills a grammar.’

Question 6

‘I have….’

Answer 6

‘I have no passport, there’s now way back at all

but my city comes to me in its own white plane.’

Question 7

‘It may n..’

Answer 7

‘It may now be a lie, banned by the state’

Question 8

Sunlight reference at the end of each stanza.

Answer 8

‘impression of sunlight’
‘It tastes like sunlight’
‘Evidence of sunlight’

Question 9

Last two lines of the poem?

Answer 9

‘My city hides behind me. They mutter death,

and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.’