Seamus Heaney Quote
Strange FruitHere is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd.Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth.They unswaddled the wet fern of her hairAnd made an exhibition of its coil,Let the air at her leathery beauty.Pash of tallow, perishable treasure:Her broken nose is dark as a turf clod,Her eyeholes blank as pools in the old workings.Diodorus Siculus confessedHis gradual ease with the likes of this:Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terribleBeheaded girl, outstaring axe
Seamus Heaney
Strange FruitHere is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd.Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth.They unswaddled the wet fern of her hairAnd made an exhibition of its coil,Let the air at her leathery beauty.Pash of tallow, perishable treasure:Her broken nose is dark as a turf clod,Her eyeholes blank as pools in the old workings.Diodorus Siculus confessedHis gradual ease with the likes of this:Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terribleBeheaded girl, outstaring axe