Nat 5 english
The way my mother speaks
"I say her phrases to myself"
"nothing is silent. Nothing is not silent."
"I am happy and sad like a child"
"I am homesick, free, in love"
Originally
"fell through the fields"
"All childhood is an emigration"
"Your accent wrong"
"shedding its skin like a snake"
"And I hesitate"
War photographer
"spools of suffering"
"set out in ordered rows"
"beneath his hands which did not tremble then"
"He remembers the cries"
"A hundred agonies"
In mrs Tilschers class
"Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery"
"The Laugh of a bell"
"Enthralling books"
"The classroom glowed like a Sweetshop"
Valentine
"It promises light"
"It will blind you with tears like a lover"
"a wobbing photo of grief."
"possessive and faithful"
Mrs Midas
"I poured with a shaking hand"
"separate beds"
"But now l feared his honeyed embrace"
"Pure selfishness"