If I Was Dead
Carol Ann Duffy
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If I Was Dead is a poem written by Carol Ann Duffy in her autobiographical collection Rapture. She is a Scottish poet who moved to England with her parents and four brothers. Her poems have the virtue of being both accessible and thought – provoking, clear and complex, humorous and serious. Many of...
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If I was dead,
and my bones adrift
like dropped oars
in the deep, turning earth;
or drowned,
and my skull
a listening shell
on the dark ocean bed;
if I was dead,
and my heart
soft mulch
for a red, red rose;
or burned,
and my body
a fistful of grit, thrown
in the face of the wind;
if I was dead,
and my eyes,
blind at the roots of flowers,
wept into nothing,
I swear your love
would raise me
out of my grave,
in my flesh and blood,
like Lazarus;
hungry for this,
and this, and this,
your living kiss.
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If I Was Dead was written by Carol Ann Duffy.
When did Carol Ann Duffy release If I Was Dead?
Carol Ann Duffy released If I Was Dead on Sat Jan 01 2005.