1 A dark September of the rising sun, lay it Think on Nature’s belly, gaze to wide, and wide forget All about the open, a shutter and a swelling, As frost upon a filament, snapped and waving round This cord could pluck amorous sound Now it’s fat and dead vibration Swallowed by Nature, her acoustics. #2 He said I dreamt we made love on moss Quickly his nature for it longs Before and thence thereafter Battered his own skull, the truncheon of those blast desires All of their dreams, disillusioned by a rotting cream Before he ate so gluttonously And loath to think so freely. #3 In the throes of such blanket miseries He was a mountain climbing itself Taillights seeking headlights Middle of the line, seeking the end Though this absolution of Dark September Wretched and cold, has months as he miles Towards the snow of Darkest November.