black
The man with the Croix de Guerre
is Harry Crosby, a poet who felt his way through the darkness of the Great War to a diary posthumously published under the title of
Shadows of the Sun.
Sleeque
Afghan nights: the poppy field
Convex with orange
The poets who write of dark cities
Toward monochrome
The magnetizing
Obscene utterance
In words, an utterance imbued with hatred of the uttering body: Edward Taylor’s “A Fig for Thee Oh! Death.”
Without a need for utterance and therefore hateless:
