Waste Knot
(6th Century BC)
finger-nails crack
red sealing wax
liberating gathering
knotted parcel string
broken finger nails
hard scarlet chips
blood flash-frozen
beaded on blade
underground
clawing for clues
damp walled
this cave-walk
distant the exit
thread leading out
reef knots slip knots
sheep-shanks bowlines
bowlines-on-the-bight
tight he tied them
used them
to measure distance
to distance him from doom
behind him
the bull head
boisterous
bellowing him on
