Too long, skeleton
Dylan Thomas
1914 to 1953
Track 1
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Too long, skeleton, death’s risen
The prism of the eye now void by suction,
Take now content, no longer posturing
Too long, skeleton, death’s all alive
Of the moment and the dead hour.
Sly as an adder, rid of fleas.
From nape to toe, a sanatorium piece
Out of the soil and seed into the drive,
Chalk cooled by leaves in the hot season,
Thy place is filled, bones bid for auction,
As raped and reaped, the final emblem.
New man best whose blood runs thick,
Rather than charnel-house as symbol
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