Poems by Etheridge Knight
Feeling Fucked Up
... and her softness and her midnight sighs--Fuck Coltrane and music and clouds drifting in the sky ...
As You Leave Me
... And, too, the shadows on your cheeks from your long lashes ...
A Poem For Myself
... (or Blues for a Mississippi Black Boy)I was born in Mississippi ...
The Idea of Ancestry
... and 1 uncle. The uncle disappeared when he was 15, just took ...
Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminal Insane
... " "he set The record for time in the Hole-67 straight days!" ...
Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine
... And Shine swam on Shine Swam onHow Shine swam past a preacher afloating on a board ...
The Violent Space (Or When Your Sister Sleeps Around For Money)
... (Run sister runthe Bugga man comes!)In the beginning you were the Virgin Mary, ...
Cell Song
... be a savior; take your words and scrape ...
Vigo County
... Blackbirds flee the April rains ...
He Sees Through Stone
... in a time gone he led me trembling cold ...
