Kamikaze Flashcards
(11 cards)
A flask of water, a samurai sword in the cockpit…
A shaven head full of powerful incantations
Enough fuel for a …
One-way journey into history
But half way there, …
She thought
He must..
Have looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting
Like a huge flag waved first one way then the other…
In a figure of eight, the dark shoals of fishes flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun
Built …
Cairns of pearl-grey pebbles
The turbulent inrush of breakers bringing…
Their father’s boat safe
And though he came back…
My mother never spoke again/in his presence, nor did she meet his eyes
Only we children…
Still chattered and laughed
Till gradually we too learned to be silent..that this was no longer …
The father we loved
She said, he must have wondered …
Which had been the better way to die
