Walcott: Nature Flashcards
The Flock: “The grip
“The grip of winter tightening.”
The Flock: “The dark, inflexible
“The dark, inflexible direction of the world as it revolves upon its centuries… day by day year after year.”
The Flock: “The dark, impartial
“The dark, impartial Arctic whose glaciers encased the mastodon, froze giant minds in marble attitudes.”
The Flock: “Antlike
“Antlike across the forehead of an alp in iron contradiction crouched.”
The Flock: “Vizor’d
“Vizor’d with blind defiance of his quest.”
The Flock: “The yearly
“The yearly divination of spring.”
The Flock: The world “revolves
The world “revolves with tireless, determined grace upon an iron axle.”
The Flock: “Skeletal
“Skeletal forest, a sepulchral knight.”
Patricia Ismond: “Walcott proceeds
“Walcott proceeds to reflect on a cosmos whose process persists through time… independent of the phenomenal changes in human civilisation.”
Patricia Ismond: “Walcott proceeds
“Walcott proceeds to reflect on a cosmos whose process persists through time… independent of the phenomenal changes in human civilisation.”
Patricia Ismond: “Walcott proceeds
“Walcott proceeds to reflect on a cosmos whose process persists through time… independent of the phenomenal changes in human civilisation.”
A Careful Passion: “The rusty
“The rusty cries of gulls revolving in the wind.”
A Careful Passion: “Hosanna
“Hosanna, I build me house, Lawd, de rain come wash it ‘way.”
ACP: “Tables
“Tables fixed like islands.”
ACP: “Marimba
“Marimba medleys from a local band.”
ACP: “My sun-puffed carcass
“My sun-puffed carcass, its eyes full of sand, rolls, spun by breakers on a southern shore.”
ACP: “Old
“old original curse.”
ACP: “I walk with her
“I walk with her into the brightening street.”
ACP: “Only the gulls
“Only the gulls, hunting the water’s edge, wheel like our lives, seeking something worth pity.”
Ebb: “Year round
“Year round, year round.”
Ebb: “Frayed
“Frayed tide fretted with mud.”
Ebb: “Yellow caterpillar
“Yellow caterpillar tractor.”
