Runs falls rises stumbles on from… and the darkness thicketed with sh… and the hunters pursuing and the h… and the night cold and the night l… to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns…

No longer throne of a goddess to w… no longer the bubble house of chil… tumbling Mother Goose man, The emphatic moon ascends— the brilliant challenger of rocket…

The old woman across the way is whipping the boy again and shouting to the neighborhood her goodness and his wrongs. Wildly he crashes through elephant…

Her sleeping head with its great g… of serpents torpidly astir burned into the mirroring shield— a scathing image dire as hated truth the mind accepts at…

Then fled, O brethren, the wicked… and wandered wandered far from curfew joys in the Dismal’s n… Fool of St. Elmo’s fire In scary night I wandered, prayin…

He dines alone surrounded by refle… of himself. Then after sleep and b… descends the Cinquecento stair his… wrought from hypochondria of the w… to-do and nagging deathwish of the…

Today as the news from Selma and… poisons the air like fallout, I come again to see the serene, great picture that I l… Here space and time exist in light

Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Merc… Sails flashing to the wind like we… sharks following the moans the fev… horror the corposant and compass r… Middle Passage:

The icy evil that struck his fathe… and ravished his mother into madne… trapped him in violence of a punis… struggling to break free. As Home Boy, as Dee-troit Red,

Lord’s lost Him His mockingbird, His fancy warbler; Satan sweet-talked her, four bullets hushed her. Who would have thought

Steel doors—guillotine gates— of the doorless house closed massi… We were locked in with loss. Guards frisked us, marked our wris… then let us into the crab Rec Hal…