ENGLISH POEM QUOTES

eden rock - they are waiting…

"They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock

mother any distance

Quotes
"unreeling years between us. Anchor. Kite."

walking away - like a…

"like a satellite wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away"

eden rock - see where the…

"See where the stream is! Crossing is not as hard as you may think"

eden rock - the same…

"The same three plates, the tin cups painted blue"

eden rock - her hair…

"Her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light"

walking away - half…

"half fledged thing set free into a wilderness... who finds no path where a path should be"

walking away - how selfhood…

"How selfhood begins with walking away, and love is proved in letting go"

Before you were mine - i remember…

"i remember my hands in those high-heeled red shoes, relics, and now your ghost clatters"

Before you were mine - you’d teach…

"You'd teach me the steps on the way home from mass, stamping stars from the wrong pavement"
"Where you sparkle and wattz and laugh before you were mine"

Before you were mine - where you

"Where you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine"

mother any distance - two floors below..

"Two floors below your fingertips still pinch the lat one hundredth of an inch..."
"opens on an endless sky to fall or fly