Eyes
"Which eyes"
"will she need for today?"
- Rhetorical question, metaphor, symbolism
"Boomerangs"
"will rattle in unison."
- Symbolism, auditory imagery
"Hunched in"
"her possum skin cloak."
- Visual imagery, symbolism
"Even the"
"wind can no longer stir"
- Personification, imagery, symbolism
"He did not"
"know me, yet he gave me his leaves"
- Symbolism, personification, metaphor
"I pick"
"the eyes filled with rage."
- Metaphor, symbolism
"Lets dig up"
"the soil and excavate the past."
- Extended metaphor, inclusive language
"She floats"
"In a puturi haze."
- Symbolism, metaphor, imagery
"The town is empty now"
- Simile
"That lone tree on the"
"ridge, is that my father?"
- Rhetorical question, metaphor, symbolism, personification
"The eyes of submission, the eyes of shame"
- Repetition, Symbolism, Emotive language
"There is"
"Blood on the truth."
- Metaphor, symbolism
"In her mind she observes"
"the hardness of the trunk, and softness of the bark."
- Juxtaposition, symbolism, tactile imagery
"Tumbleweeds of blue"
"pattern dresses, drift down the empty streets."
- Metaphor
"If I climb to him now"
"and lie in his limbs"
- Extended metaphor, tactile imagery