kamikaze

• '' Her father embarked at sunrise ''
• '' samurai sword ''
• '' shaven head

  full of powerful incantations ''
• '' one-way

  journey into history ''
• '' strung out like bunting ''
• '' green-blue translucent sea ''
• '' like a huge flag ''
• '' figure of eight ''
• '' dark shoals of fishes

  flashing silver as their bellies

  swivelled towards the sun ''
• '' cairns of pearl-grey pebbles ''
• '' nor did she meet his eyes ''
• '' to be silent, to live as though

  he had never returned ''
• '' which had been the better way to die. ''