Key Quotations - Green poems

"Run my fingers through the ..."

• "gelled blackthorns of your hair"

• "soft folds of your suit jacket"

• "yellow bias around your uniform"

• "soft curls of your brown hair"

"Release a ________ from its cage"

"Leaned against it..."

• "Like a cross"

• "Like a ruler"

• "Like a wishbone"

• "Like a pole"

"The world overflowing like a treasure _____"

"Spools of ________ set out in ordered rows"

• Photographs

• Images

• Agonies

• Suffering

"A ____-______ ghost"

"Hands which did not tremble then,..."

• "which are shaking now"

• "though seem to now"

• "but are covered in goosebumps"

• "but are traumatised now"

"A huge peak, _____ and huge"

"An act of ________ pleasure"

• unrivalled

• troubled

• terrible

• extreme

"________ its head"