Black Finnegan - Unpersons

Black finnegan—liar

Black finnegan—something insensate

Black finnegan—who walks slow tall and long in the dark room

Black finnegan—whose words

Commoving as the ocean

Undress things

'you worse than senseless things,' you

Black finnegan, who sleeps in back of the tavern…

II

Dead man

Stolen words

Birds circle you

Madman’s devotion

Black finnegan

Stolen words

Breathe in sin again

Drunkard’s potion

Black finnegan—suit of salted words to the action

Black finnegan—who let the drink undress the words

Black finnegan—who sought the birds' motion to the words

Black finnegan—and again and again and again…

III

Who let the vultures undress me?