Out of the Blue (21 page)

• Patrick at four years old on Bonfire Night
  ,
  112
  
• Patrick, I cannot write,
  72
  
• Patrick I
  ,
  72
  
• Patrick II
  ,
  73
  
• Pedalo
  ,
  207
  
• Permafrost
  ,
  133
  
• Pharaoh’s daughter
  ,
  70
  
• Piers Plowman: The Crucifixion & Harrowing of Hell
  ,
  22
  
• Pilgrims
  ,
  155
  
• Ploughing the roughlands
  ,
  136
  
• Poem for December
  28
  ,
  79
  
• Poem for hidden women
  ,
  81
  
• Poem in a Hotel
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  193
  
• Poem on the Obliteration of 100,000 Iraqi Soldiers
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  201
  
• Porpoise washed up on the beach
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  102
  
• Preaching at Gwennap
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  145
  
• Preaching at Gwennap, silk,
  145
  
• Privacy of rain
  ,
  163
  

• Rain. A plump splash,
  163
  
• Rapunzel
  ,
  117
  
• Refrigerator days,
  242
  
• Restless, the pæony truss tosses about,
  132
  
• Rinsing
  ,
  182
  
• Rubbing Down the Horse
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  197
  
• Russian doll
  ,
  59
  

• Safe period
  ,
  174
  
• Sailing to Cuba
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  179
  
• Say we’re in a compartment at night,
  36
  
• Scan at 8 weeks
  ,
  206
  
• Seal run
  ,
  128
  
• See this ’un here, this little bone needle,
  58
  
• Shadows of my mother against a wall
  ,
  140
  
• She comes close to perfection,
  37
  
• She kept Uncle Will’s telegram,
  117
  
• She’s next to nowhere, feeling no cold,
  236
  
• She swam to me smiling, her teeth,
  207
  
• Ships on brown water,
  32
  
• Sisters leaving before the dance
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  160
  
• Skips
  ,
  218
  
• Sleeveless
  ,
  41
  
• Small, silvery, slipping,
  248
  
• Smoke
  ,
  31
  
• Snowdrops, Mary’s tapers,
  154
  
• Snow Queen
  ,
  54
  
• Snug a devil’s toenail embedded,
  47
  
• So how decisive a house is,
  71
  
• Sometimes in the rough garden of city spaces
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  232
  
• Speak to me in the only language,
  12
  
• St Paul’s
  ,
  78
  
• Sylvette Scrubbing
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  215
   
  

• Tall ship hanging out at the horizon,
  60
  
• Tea at Brandt’s
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  249
  
• That lake lies along the shore,
  164
  
• That morning when the potato tops rusted,
  202
  
• That old cinema of memory
  ,
  16
  
• That’s better, he says, he says,
  149
  
• That violet-haired lady
  ,
  52
  
• That violet-haired lady, dowager-,
  52
  
• The air-blue gown,
  109
  
• The apple fall
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  69
  
• The argument
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  142
  
• The bald glasshouses stretch here for miles,
  143
  
• The bathers, where are they? The sea is quite empty,
  166
  
• The Bike Lane
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  194
  
• The blessing
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  48
  
• The boy in the boat, the tip of the pole,
  229
  
• The bride’s nights in a strange village
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  96
  
• The butcher’s daughter
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  56
  
• The coffin-makers
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  46
  
• The conception
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  205
  
• The cuckoo game
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  55
  
• The damson
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  67
  
• The deserted table
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  88
  
• The Diving Refle
  x
  ,
  212
  
• The dream-life of priests
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  158
  
• The dry glasshouse is almost empty,
  143
  
• The dry well
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  176
  
• The father is a writer; the son,
  89
  
• The footfall
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  45
  
• The form
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  42
  
• The grass looks different in another country,
  151
  
• The greenfield ghost
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  57
  
• The greenfield ghost is not much of a ghost,
  57
  
• The halls are thronged, the grand staircase murmurous,
  48
  
• The hard-hearted husband
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  152
  
• The haunting of Epworth
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  144
  
• The horse landscape
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  113
  
• The land pensions
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  137
  
• The land pensions, like rockets,
  137
  
• The last day of the exhausted month
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  87
  
• The long arm hangs flat to his lap,
  147
  
• The man on the roof
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  13
  
• The man who gave little Ellie his forever,
  245
  
• The mare with her short legs heavily mudcaked,
  146
  
• The night chemist
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  77
  
• The other babies were more bitter than you,
  73
  
• The Our Father, the moment of fear,
  203
  
• The panting of buses through caves of memory,
  17
  
• The parachute packers
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  100
  
• The parachute packers with white faces,
  100
  
• The peach house
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  143
  
• The plum tree
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  108
  
• The plum was my parents’ tree,
  108
  
• The point of not returning
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  42
  
• The point of not returning/is to go back, but never quite back,
  42
  
• The Polish husband
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  66
  
• The potatoes come out of the earth bright,
  128
  
• The rain’s coming in
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  36
  
• The rain was falling down in slow pulses,
  141
  
• There he stands, blind on slivovitz,
  41
  
• There’s a stone set in the car-park wall,
  19
  
• The room creaked like a pair of lungs,
  177
  
• The scattering
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  234
  
• The sea’s a featureless blaze,
  153
  
• The sea skater
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  119
  
• The sentence
  ,
  43
  
• The Silent Man in Waterstones
  ,
  220
  
• The slowly moving river in summer,
  70
  
• The soft fields part in hedges, each,
  124
  
• The spill
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  34
  
• The summer cabins are padlocked,
  92
  
• The surgeon husband
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  228
  
• The thing about a saddle is that second,
  197
  
• Thetis
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  115
  
• Thetis, mother of all mothers,
  115
  
• The traffic halted,
  66
  
• The Wardrobe Mistress
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  221
  
• The wasp
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  244
  
• The white receiver,
  206
  
• The winter fairs are all over,
  91
  
• The wood-pigeon rolls soft notes off its breast,
  140
  
• The writer’s son
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  89
  
• They are hiding away in the desert,
  201
  
• The Yellow Sky
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  202
  
• They fly/straight-necked and barely white,
  53
  
• This evening clouds darken the street quickly,
  78
  
• This is Jacob’s drum,
  15
  
• This is the wardrobe mistress, touching,
  220
  
• This is what I want,
  217
  
• This path is silky with dust,
  204
  
• Those shady girls
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  158
  
• Those shady girls on the green side of the street,
  158
  
• Those words like oil, loose in the world,
  34
  
• Three Ways of Recovering a Body
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  191
  
• Three workmen with blue pails
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  171
  
• Tiger lookout
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  242
  
• Tiger Moth caterpillar
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  243
  
• Time by Accurist
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  219
  
• To Betty, swimming
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  183
  
• Today in a horse landscape,
  113
  
• Today is barred with darkness of winter,
  80
  
• Tonight I’m eating the past,
  109
  
• Tonight there’s a crowd in my head,
  235
  
• To Virgil
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  190
  
• Two miles or so beyond,
  213
  
• Two of us on the tired pavement,
  40
  
• Two spines curve in,
  243
  

• Uncle Will’s telegram
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  117
  
• Up at the park once more,
  90
  
• US 1st Division Airborne Ranger at rest in Honduras
  ,
  147
   
  

• Viking cat in the dark
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  238
  
• Virgin with Two Cardigans,
  19
  

• Waiting. I’m here waiting,
  193
  
• Walking at all angles,
  14
  
• Washed silk jacket by Mesa,
  219
  
• Weaning
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  74
  
• We are men, not beasts
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  250
  
• We’re strung out on the plain’s upthirst,
  181
  
• What I get I bring home to you,
  130
  
• When I held you up to my cheek you were cold,
  59
  
• When my grandmother died my father
  
• eulogised her,
  13
  
• When you grow tired of the flame,
  240
  
• When You’ve Got
  ,
  222
  
• When you’ve got the plan of your life,
  222
  
• Where have you been, my little daughter,
  56
  
• Where have you gone,
  67
  
• Where the great ship sank I am,
  212
  
• Whichever way I turned on the radio,
  187
  
• Whooper swans
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  53
  
• Wild strawberries
  ,
  130
  
• Winter 1955
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  181
  
• Winter fairs
  ,
  91
  
• With his hands he teaches wind to move,
  241
  
• Without remission
  ,
  35
  
• With short, harsh breaths,
  44
  

• You came back to life in its sweetness
  ,
  198
  
• You put your hand over mine and whispered,
  162
  
• Your dry voice from the centre of the bed,
  174
  
• You’re breast-up in the bubbling spaces you make for yourself,
  183
  

• Zelda
  ,
  64
  

Copyright © Helen Dunmore 1983, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2001

First published 2001 by
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