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