Wintering Out by Heaney Seamus

Author:Heaney, Seamus [Heaney, Seamus]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780571262731
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

That glisten and scut.

Nothing is panting, lolling,

Vapouring. The tongue’s

Leashed in my throat.

The Tollund Man

I

Some day I will go to Aarhus

To see his peat-brown head,

The mild pods of his eye-lids,

His pointed skin cap.

In the flat country nearby

Where they dug him out,

His last gruel of winter seeds

Caked in his stomach,

Naked except for

The cap, noose and girdle,

I will stand a long time.

Bridegroom to the goddess,

She tightened her torc on him

And opened her fen,

Those dark juices working

Him to a saint’s kept body,

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