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    Here is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd.
    Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth.

    They unswaddled the wet fern of her hair
    And 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 confessed
    His gradual ease with the likes of this:
    Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible
    Beheaded girl, outstaring axe
    And beatification, outstaring
    What had begun to feel like reverence.

    seamu sheaney

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