Times Like These Flashcards
1
Q
Too heavy hearted
A
to go walking in beech-woods
2
Q
At night
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the children’s sleep is racked by dreams. They wake crying of war
3
Q
I remember how
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love weighed, anger shored// against helplessness
4
Q
the bitter rain
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that stained our mothers milk
5
Q
Yet my daughter’s
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beautiful, and my daughters daughter
6
Q
Shadow on shining
A
here she comes dancing through the bright window of ultra-sound
7
Q
firercer than
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death and kicking to be born.
8
Q
In times like
A
these we should praise trees and babies
9
Q
and take children
A
walking in beech-woods
