In..
In Worcester, Massachusetts
The inside of…
The inside of a volcano,/black, and full of ashes;
A dead man…
A dead man slung on a pole/-‘Long Pig’ the caption said.
Babies with…
Babies with pointed heads
black naked woman…
black, naked women with necks/wound round and round with wire/like the necks of light bulbs./Their breasts were horrifying.
I said to myself…
I said to myself:three days/and you’ll be seven years old.
Falling off…
Falling off/the round, turning world/into cold, blue-black space.
nothing stranger…
nothing stranger/had ever happened.
And those…
and those awful hanging breasts
It was sliding…
It was sliding/ beneath a big black wave,/another, and another