Quotes

• “Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”
• “But nothing happens”
• “forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed”
• “we turn back to our dying”
• “sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
• “We are prepared”
• “spits like a tame cat/ turned savage”
• “exploding comfortably”
• “But there are no trees, no natural shelter”
• “We are bombarded by the empty air”
• “On another occasion”
• “probably armed, possibly not”
• “rips through his life”
• “tosses his guts back into his body”
• “his bloody life in my bloody hands”
• “tucks, darts, pleats”
• "like a treasure chest”
• “released a song bird from its cage”
• “leaned against it like a wishbone”
• “hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the wind”
• ‘Dawn masking … her melancholy army’
• ‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’
• "Belfast, Beirut, Phnom Penh."
• "All flesh is grass."
• ‘fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat’
• ‘A hundred agonies in black and white’
• "A hundred agonies in black and white"
• "My memory of it is sunlight clear"
• "There was once a country"
• ‘but I am branded by an impression of sunlight’
• "but I can’t get it off my tongue, for it tastes of sunlight"
• ‘my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight’
• "They accuse of absence, they circle me"
• "Bright, filled paperweight"
• "Dem tell me

  dem tell me

  what dem want to tell me"
• "Bandage up me eye with me own history"
• "Blind me to me own identity"
• ‘Dem tell me about Columbus and 1942

  But what happen to the de Caribs and de Arawaks too’
• ‘But now I checking out me own history’
• ‘I carving out me identity’