Kamikaze

• “her father embarked at sunrise”
• “a samurai sword… a shaven head full of powerful incantations“
• “little fishing boats strung out like bunting“
• “green-blue translucent sea”
• “like a huge flag waved first one way then the other in a figure of eight“
• “grandfather’s boat safe to the shore”
• ”gradually we too learned to be silent”
• “he must have wondered which had been the better way to die“