Black Tambourine
Hart Crane
1899 to 1932
Drag the words to the correct places to complete the poem. To reset the game, click on the "Reset Game" button located below the poem. This will clear all the words you've placed in the blanks, returning them to the word bank and resetting the poem to its original state with empty blanks.
The interests of a black man in a cellar
______ tardy judgment on the world's closed door.
Gnats toss ______ the shadow of a bottle,
And a roach spans ______ crevice in the floor.
Aesop, driven to pondering, found
______ with the tortoise and the hare;
Fox brush and ______ ear top his grave
And mingling incantations on the air.
The black man, forlorn in the cellar,
Wanders in ______ mid-kingdom, dark, that lies,
Between his tambourine, stuck on ______ wall,
And, in Africa, a carcass quick with flies.