1
Outside, the thunder
Shakes the prison walls; inside
My heart shakes my ears.
2
(For Sonia)
Snow from the mountains
Of my heart instantly melts
In your warm Blackness.
3
Black men with Torches
Follow the bloody tracks of
The albino beast.
4
Gray jets drag white tails
Across blue skies; gray rats drag
Tails across black legs.
From The Lost Etheridge Knight: The Uncollected Poems of Etheridge Knight. Copyright © 2022 by Etheridge Knight. Published by Kinchafoonee Creek Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.