Collected Poems 1945-1990 by R. S. Thomas

Author:R. S. Thomas [Thomas, R. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780223087
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2012-04-25T22:00:00+00:00

Woman Combing

Degas

So the hair, too,

can be played?

She lets it down

and combs a sonata

from it: brown cello

of hair, with the arm

bowing. Painter,

who with your quick

brush, gave us this silent

music, there is nothing

that you left out.

The blues and greens,

the abandoned snowfall

of her shift, the light

on her soft flesh tell us

from what score she performs.

The Son

It was your mother wanted you;

you were already half-formed

when I entered. But can I deny

the hunger, the loneliness bringing me in

from myself? And when you appeared

before me, there was no repentance

for what I had done, as there was shame

in the doing it; compassion only

for that which was too small to be called

human. The unfolding of your hands

was plant-like, your ear was the shell

I thundered in; your cries, when they came,

were those of a blind creature

trodden upon; pain not yet become grief.

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