Black Finnegan

I.
Black finneganliar
Black finnegansomething insensate
Black finneganwho walks slow tall and long in the dark room
Black finneganwhose 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 finnegansuit of salted words to the action
Black finneganwho let the drink undress the words
Black finneganwho sought the birds' motion to the words
Black finneganand again and again and again
III.
Who let the vultures undress me?