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Bridestones Scorched-looking, unhewn - a hill-top chapel. Actually a crown of outcrop rock - Earth's heart bone laid bare. Crowding, congregation of skies. Tense congregation of hills. You do nothing casual here. The wedding stones Are electrified with wispers. And marriage is nailed down By this slender necked, heavy headed Black exclamaition mark of rock. And you go With the wreath of weather The wreath of horizons The wreath of constellations Over your shoulders. And from now on The sun Can always touch you With the shadow of this finger. From now on The moon can always lift your skull On to this perch, to clean it. Ted Hughes Remains of Elmet 1979

Posted by fitzcoraldo 21st August 2006ce

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