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under a pillow

Posted: June 27th, 2009 | Author: Vanessa Hughes | Filed under: Vanessa Hughes & Zoe Norton Lodge: Under Milk Wood, currants, evans the death, pillow, snow, white and red | Comments Off

Evans the Death, the undertaker, laughs high and aloud in his sleep and curls up his toes as he sees, upon waking fifty years ago, snow lie deep on the goosefield behind the sleeping house ; and he runs out into the field where his mother is making welsh-cakes in the snow, and steals a fistful of snowflakes and currants and climbs back to bed to eat them cold and sweet under the warm, white clothes while his mother dances in the snow kitchen crying out for her lost currants.

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