How to never lie :)

And Heaney’s use of non-falsifiable speech  :)  This sonnet is, except for one indicative sentence (lines 4–6), made up of exquisite sentence fragments, interrogatives, and an imperative:

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From Glanmore Sonnets

By Seamus Heaney

VIII

Thunderlight on the split logs: big raindrops  

At body heat and lush with omen

Spattering dark on the hatchet iron.

This morning when a magpie with jerky steps  

Inspected a horse asleep beside the wood  

I thought of dew on armour and carrion.

What would I meet, blood-boltered, on the road?  

How deep into the woodpile sat the toad?

What welters through this dark hush on the crops?  

Do you remember that pension in Les Landes  

Where the old one rocked and rocked and rocked  

A mongol in her lap, to little songs?  

Come to me quick, I am upstairs shaking.

My all of you birchwood in lightning.