R. S. Thomas Quote

There stood the ladies from the council houses:
Blue eyes and Birmingham yellow
Hair, and the ritual murder of vowels.


Poetry for Supper (1958)


There stood the ladies from the council houses: Blue eyes and Birmingham yellow Hair, and the ritual murder of vowels.

There stood the ladies from the council houses: Blue eyes and Birmingham yellow Hair, and the ritual murder of vowels.

There stood the ladies from the council houses: Blue eyes and Birmingham yellow Hair, and the ritual murder of vowels.

There stood the ladies from the council houses: Blue eyes and Birmingham yellow Hair, and the ritual murder of vowels.