David Gascoyne Hair Poems

  • 1.
    In the waking night
    The forests have stopped growing
    The shells are listening
    The shadows in the pools turn grey
    ...
  • 2.
    The face of the precipice is black with lovers;
    The sun above them is a bag of nails; the spring's
    First rivers hide among their hair.
    Goliath plunges his hand into the poisoned well
    ...
  • 3.
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    white curtains of infinite fatigue
    dominating the starborn heritage of the colonies of St Francis
    ...
Total 3 Hair Poems by David Gascoyne

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