. Black is the colour Where other colours go Swimming in . I am absorption, Thick graphite drawings. Tar, pitch, embellished . Bruised colours like flowers; Hidden powers in these cowards. Mortals are more fun than gods–I touch . Music, sinews, my flesh, fie, These lights bruise my eye–it’s cold I smell. Sigh. Rain and earth, fresh, Solid. Home . Black is a colour I swim. Sleep. Such Is this: I am not Hamlet’s Ghost .