The Pattern Flashcards

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Stanza 1(the pattern)

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the sting of her hand across my face in one of our wars.

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Stanza 2/3(the pattern)

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We might have made a new start as women without tags like mother, wife, sister, daughter,

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Stanza 3(the pattern)

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I’d never gone back to visit her grave.

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Stanza 4(the pattern)

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When her knees grew sore she’d break for a cup of tea.

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Stanza 5(the pattern)

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Did her mirror tell what mine tells me?

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Stanza 6(the pattern)

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knowing history has brought her to her knees.

We’d grow solemn as planets in an intricate orbit about her.

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Stanza 8(the pattern)

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It’ll be over my dead body anyone harms a hair of your head.

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Stanza 10(the pattern)

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I wore that dress with little grace. To me it spelt poverty, the stigma of the second hand.

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Stanza 13(the pattern)

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wrapped entirely in her own shadow, the world beyond her already a dream, already lost. She’s eight months pregnant. Her last child.

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Stanza 15(the pattern)

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I dreamt a robe of a colour so pure it became a word.

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Stanza 17(the pattern)

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Tongues of flames in her dark eyes, she’d say, “One of these days I must teach you to follow a pattern.”

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