<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:1ca9d644-67e2-46b8-bef4-32312425ecca" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="center "> <span class="smallcaps">SAM SAX</span> </p> <h1 class="chaptertitle paired">Buena Vista Park, 2 a.m.</h1> <p class="center "><span class="smallcaps">FROM</span> <em>Fourteen Hills</em></p> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">these men carry</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">famine in them</p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">eyes</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">knives</p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">the lamps throw their light</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">against branches</p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">the branches rake their shadows</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">across a man’s naked back</p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">his back flat as a table</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">the table set for me</p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">i did not come here hungry</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">& yet</p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote> <p class="hang ">i eat.</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>