Will they occur,
These people with torsos of steel
Winged elbows and eyeholes
Awaiting masses
Of cloud to give them expression,
These super-people!--
And my baby a nail
Driven in, driven in.
He shrieks in his grease,
Bones nosing for distances.
And I, nearly extinct,
His three teeth cutting
Themselves on my thumb--
And the star,
The old story.
In the lane I meet sheep and wagons,
Red earth, motherly blood.
O You who eat
People like light rays, leave
This one
Mirror safe, unredeemed
By the dove's annihilation,
The glory
The power, the glory.