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The Grauballe Man
As if he had been poured
in tar, he lies
on a pillow of turf
and seems to weep

the black river of himself.

The grain of his wrists
is like bog oak,
the ball of his heel

like a basalt egg.

His instep has shrunk
cold as a swan’s foot
or a wet swamp root.


His hips are the ridge
and purse of a mussel,
his spine an eel arrested
under a glisten of mud.


The head lifts,
the chin is a visor
raised above the vent
of his slashed throat

that has tanned and toughened.

The cured wound
opens inwards to a dark
elderberry place.


Who will say ‘corpse’
to his vivid cast?
Who will say ‘body’
to his opaque repose?

And his rusted hair,
a mat unlikely
as a foetus’s.

I first saw his twisted face

in a photograph,
a head and shoulder
out of the peat,
bruised like a forceps baby,

but now he lies
perfected in my memory,
down to the red horn
of his nails,

hung in the scales
with beauty and atrocity:
with the Dying Gaul
too strictly compassed

on his shield,
with the actual weight
of each hooded victim,
slashed and dumped.
Written by: Seamus Heaney

Book: Shattered Sighs