IN DYLAN THOMAS'S COLLECTED POEMS, 1934-1952 (1971) (2016)*
These boys of light are curdlers in their folly,
Sour the boiling honey; Spoilers / ruined by time-ruining
And boys are full and foreign in the pouch. Sex
Shut, too, in a tower [removed imprisoned] of words, I mark
On the horizon walking like the trees Organic erect phallus
Left by the dead who, in their moonless acre,
Need no word's warmth. "Stench of mortality" Conrad
Sexual A candle in the thighs
These five kings [fingers] did a king to death.
Then, penny-eyed, that gentleman of wounds, Christ baby
On this high hill in a year's turning. May he live another year.
On to the ground when a man died Can not react to life
Now break a giant tear for the little known fall, heaven / Death of Everyman
Death of enemies For the drooping of homes
The sundering ultimate kingdom of genesis' thunder.
Out of desolation comes birth
Youth gives feeling of immortality Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
*(notes in small, careful script, pencil and pen)
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