Kamikaze

Cards (12)

  • Her father
  • Shaven head full of powerful incantations
  • She thought, recounting it later to her childfren
  • Strung out like bunting
  • And remembered how he and his brothers
  • Cloud marked material, feathery prawns, tuna - the dark prince, muscular, dangerous
  • And sometimes, she said, he must have wondered which had been the better way to die
  • Only we children still chattered and laughed
  • Till gradually we too learned to be silent
  • My mother never spoke again in his presence
  • They treated him as though he no longer existed
  • Green blue translucent sea