QUOTES

• "I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, spasms of paper red,"
• "I was brave"
• "steeled the softening of my face."
• "Sellotape, bandaged around my hand,"
• "and you were away, intoxicated."
• "released a songbird from its cage. Later a single dove flew from a pear tree."
• "a winter coat or reinforcements of scarf, gloves."
• "leaned against it like a wishbone."
• "I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind."
• "Threw it open, the world overflowing like a treasure chest."
• "The dove pulled freely against the sky."
• "flattened, rolled, turned into felt,"