Tassel-ankled feet
As the Greeks gather for war, the goddess Athena rallies them.
‘The Daughter Prince, ash-eyed Athena, flew
Her father’s...
Silver-antlered deer
A striking metaphor for bicycle handlebars ranged alongside each other against a wall, like the interlocking of deers' antlers.
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Green-leaf song
What could be sweeter to the ear than a 'green-leaf song'? Leigh Fermor hears it parting company with an old...
Handsomely-bound journal
The first entry of a journal which provided the material for some of the best travel writing of the 20th...
Wasps quick-bending
One of the many stretch metaphors used by Homer. When you see a comma followed by 'as ...' it can...
Half-comprehended notions
I remember childhood dreams and hauntings of 'half-comprehended notions': cold war threats of nuclear annhilation, and being told the Soviet...
Moss-gloved trees
Years of dripping rain from these moss-soft trees, in an endlessly dank, chill climate, has tanned the leather of a...
A voice to clear the head
Trying to imagine a 'head-clearing voice' - is it a singing, shouting or speaking voice? Or is it just...
Cloud-born apotheoses
The triologism caught my eye, but I like even more the play of light bouncing from a Venetian canal up...
Ankle-snapping boulders
Another vivid image of this lunar landscape, boulders both too big and too small to step on, instead being the...
Black-coiffed crone
An ancient if none too respectful image of elderly and slightly sinister women. However, their manifest suffering from sea-sickness removes...
Tissue-thin vulnerability
Among other things, Sea Room is a study of human strategies for survival over millennia, of the fragility and tenacity...
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