kamikaze

• "Her father embarked at sunrise… a samurai sword"
• "a shaven head full of powerful incantations and enough for a one-way journey into history"
• "he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea"
• "like a huge flag… figure of eight… shoals of fished flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun"
• "salt sodden… cloud-marked macherel, black crabs… loose silver of whitebait… tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous."
• "only we children still chattered and laughed till tradually we too learned to be silent, to live as though her…" "This was no longer the father we loved… he must have wondered which had been the better way to die"