Marlais

Dying alone on foreign ground,
death gripped his blessed hand

Raging hard across the pond,
Manhattan, his last stand

An oak to fall on alien soil,
all seeds to heaven thrown

His words cast free into the dark,
that ‘Good Night’ now his own

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
       'Dylan Marlais Thomas'
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Krutsinger Avatar
March 30, 2020 at 10:15 PM
Your empathy comes from every direction in this one Kurt.
Behm Avatar
March 30, 2020 at 10:20 PM
I've always felt connected to him, Caren. When I first read him in 1962, he changed my life. Thanks
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