Black Tambourine
Hart Crane
1899 to 1932
Track 1
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Between his tambourine, stuck on the wall,
The interests of a black man in a cellar
Heaven with the tortoise and the hare;
Mark tardy judgment on the world's closed door.
Aesop, driven to pondering, found
Fox brush and sow ear top his grave
And a roach spans a crevice in the floor.
The black man, forlorn in the cellar,
Gnats toss in the shadow of a bottle,
And mingling incantations on the air.
Wanders in some mid-kingdom, dark, that lies,
And, in Africa, a carcass quick with flies.
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