Light breaks where no sun shines

Dylan Thomas

1914 to 1953

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Spout to the rod
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
Night in the sockets rounds,
The fruit of man unwrinkles in the stars,
And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
The things of light
Where no cold is, the skinning gales unpin
File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.
Push in their tides;
Bright as a fig;
And blood jumps in the sun;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain;
Divining in a smile the oil of tears.
Nor fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky
Warms youth and seed and burns the seeds of age;
From poles of skull and toe the windy blood
Light breaks on secret lots,
When logics die,
Dawn breaks behind the eyes;
Day lights the bone;
Where no seed stirs,
Slides like a sea;
The winter’s robes;
The film of spring is hanging from the lids.
Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no wax is, the candle shows its hairs.
A candle in the thighs
Like some pitch moon, the limit of the globes;

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