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John Hall Wheelock

The Black Panther: A book of poems

Published by Good Press, 2021

EAN 4066338086686

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is a panther caged within my breast;

But what his name, there is no breast shall know

Save mine, nor what it is that drives him so,

Backward and forward, in relentless quest—

That silent rage, baffled but unsuppressed,

The soft pad of those stealthy feet that go

Over my body’s prison to and fro,

Trying the walls forever without rest.

All day I feed him with my living heart;

But when the night puts forth her dreams and stars,

The inexorable Frenzy reawakes: