Catalogue of my grandmother’s sayings - by
A bloody good hiding
/ Another egg chipped
/ …
A bloody good hiding
/ Another egg chipped
/ …
Walking through the same trees / though in a different language / wading in the long river running / of…
after the Gaelic of Lachlann Mor MacMhuirich (fl. 1411)
/
/ You Clann of Conn, remember this:
/ Strength from the eye of the storm.
/ Be…
Remember the time when a man from the north
/ Wrote a letter received by a man from the south
/ And the second…
Ten million years
/ from the Miocene
/ to the primary school in Ječná Street.
/
/ We know everything
/ from a to z.
/
/ But sometimes the finger stops
/ in…
Our cries, she used to say
/ would scratch the moon’s windowpanes
/ and scrape the corners of tombstones which milked the moon
/
/ My mother…
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