The Emigree Flashcards
‘There once was a country… I left it as a child / but my memory of it is sunlight-clear’
‘There once was a country… I left it as a child / but my memory of it is sunlight-clear’
‘The worst news I receive of it cannot break / my original view, the bright, filled paperweight’
‘The worst news I receive of it cannot break / my original view, the bright, filled paperweight’
‘The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes glow’
‘The white streets of that city, the graceful slopes glow’
‘It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, but I am branded by an impression of sunlight’
‘It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, but I am branded by an impression of sunlight’
“time rolls its tanks”
“time rolls its tanks”
‘That child’s vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar’
‘That child’s vocabulary I carried here / like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar’
‘It tastes of sunlight.’
‘It tastes of sunlight.’
‘banned by the state’
‘banned by the state’
‘I have no passport, there’s no way back at all’
‘I have no passport, there’s no way back at all’
“my city comes to me in its own white plane”
“my city comes to me in its own white plane”
‘My city takes me dancing through the city of walls’
‘My city takes me dancing through the city of walls’
‘I comb its hair and love its shining eyes’
‘I comb its hair and love its shining eyes’
“My city hides behind me ….. my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
“My city hides behind me ….. my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
‘They accuse me of absence, they circle me’
‘They accuse me of absence, they circle me’
