Most of my dream is outside of myself.
—Lorraine Hansbury
Gone when I touched him,
gone in the glacier,
gone in the birth-pangs,
gone in the heat,
gone in the wet skin,
gone in desire,
gone in the white car,
the green, green lawn,
gone in deterrent,
gone in employment,
gone in the going that
never comes home,
gone in the burning,
gone in the family,
gone in the teeth
and the bone
and the blood,
gone in the three men,
gone in the madman,
gone in the no-man,
five of them dead,
gone in the rumble,
gone in the red night,
gone all in dead air,
gone to the moon.
