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The Tombstone Told When She Died
Dylan Thomas
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The tombstone told when she died
Her two surnames stopped me still
A virgin married at rest
She married in this pouring place
That I struck one day by luck
Before I heard in my mother's side
Or saw in the looking glass shell
The rain through her cold heart speak
And the sun killed in her face
More the thick stone cannot tell
Before she lay on a stranger's bed
With a hand plunged through her hair
Or that rainy tongue beat back
Through the devilish years and innocent deaths
To the room of a secret child
Among men later I heard it said
She cried her white-dressed limbs were bare
And her red lips were kissed black
She wept in her pain and made mouths
Talked and tore though her eyes smiled
I who saw in a hurried film
Death and this mad heroine
Meet once on a mortal wall
Heard her speak through the chipped beak
Of the stone bird guarding her
I died before bedtime came
But my womb was bellowing
And I felt with my bare fall
A blazing red harsh head tear up
And the dear floods of his hair