Walcott: Nature Flashcards

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The Flock: “The grip

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“The grip of winter tightening.”

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The Flock: “The dark, inflexible

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“The dark, inflexible direction of the world as it revolves upon its centuries… day by day year after year.”

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The Flock: “The dark, impartial

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“The dark, impartial Arctic whose glaciers encased the mastodon, froze giant minds in marble attitudes.”

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The Flock: “Antlike

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“Antlike across the forehead of an alp in iron contradiction crouched.”

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The Flock: “Vizor’d

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“Vizor’d with blind defiance of his quest.”

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The Flock: “The yearly

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“The yearly divination of spring.”

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The Flock: The world “revolves

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The world “revolves with tireless, determined grace upon an iron axle.”

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The Flock: “Skeletal

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“Skeletal forest, a sepulchral knight.”

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Patricia Ismond: “Walcott proceeds

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“Walcott proceeds to reflect on a cosmos whose process persists through time… independent of the phenomenal changes in human civilisation.”

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Patricia Ismond: “Walcott proceeds

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“Walcott proceeds to reflect on a cosmos whose process persists through time… independent of the phenomenal changes in human civilisation.”

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Patricia Ismond: “Walcott proceeds

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“Walcott proceeds to reflect on a cosmos whose process persists through time… independent of the phenomenal changes in human civilisation.”

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A Careful Passion: “The rusty

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“The rusty cries of gulls revolving in the wind.”

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A Careful Passion: “Hosanna

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“Hosanna, I build me house, Lawd, de rain come wash it ‘way.”

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ACP: “Tables

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“Tables fixed like islands.”

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ACP: “Marimba

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“Marimba medleys from a local band.”

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ACP: “My sun-puffed carcass

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“My sun-puffed carcass, its eyes full of sand, rolls, spun by breakers on a southern shore.”

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ACP: “Old

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“old original curse.”

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ACP: “I walk with her

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“I walk with her into the brightening street.”

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ACP: “Only the gulls

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“Only the gulls, hunting the water’s edge, wheel like our lives, seeking something worth pity.”

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Ebb: “Year round

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“Year round, year round.”

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Ebb: “Frayed

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“Frayed tide fretted with mud.”

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Ebb: “Yellow caterpillar

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“Yellow caterpillar tractor.”