Limp with night fears: hellebore, wolfsbane, Marlowe is daggered, fire, volts, African vipers, the grizzly the horses sensed, the rattlesnake by the mailbox -- how he struck at thrown rocks, black water, framed by police, wanton wife, I'm a bad poet broke and broken at thirty-two, a renter, shot by mistake, airplanes and trains, half-mast hard-ons, a poisoned earth, sun will go out, car break down in a blizzard, my animals die, fistfights, alcohol, caskets, the hammerhead gliding under the boat near Loggerhead Key, my soul, my heart, my brain, my life so interminably struck with an ax as wet wood splints bluntly, mauled into sections for burning. |