knives

So often England have arrived in Australia armed only with knives for a gunfight.

In Hollister, underage siblings use sharp knives to cut and clean heirloom apricots that dry in the hot sun.

The clowns on Autumn’s socks are wearing gruesome smiles and wielding wickedly sharp knives, as if threatening me to be emotionally vulnerable.

“Yes, bread knives, spreading pain across my soul. Like butter.”

In the predawn hours of March 13, 1944, a Halifax bomber flew across the black waters of the Adriatic Sea carrying four Jewish paratroopers equipped with submachine guns, pistols and knives.