Black

Black was the without eye
Black the within tongue
Black was the heart
Black the liver, black the lungs

Unable to suck in light
Black the blood in its loud tunnel
Black the bowels packed in furnace

Black too the muscles
Striving to pull out into the light
Black the nerves, black the brain
With its tombed visions

Unable to suck in light
Black the blood in its loud tunnel
Black the bowels packed in furnace

Black also the soul, the huge stammer
Of the cry that, swelling, could not
Pronounce its Sun