[Realpoetik] SHANE MCCRAE [Part Two]
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*from* THE AWAKENING OF SOLOMON NORTHUP: 2. IN DARKNESS
Woke for the first time in my life
chained aching woke in darkness
Woke in a dark my eyes
Couldn’t adjust to woke
chained to a ring in the floor
Head aching chained in a dark room
And hearing footsteps voices
overhead I realized
The room was underground
Woke and at first I couldn’t
Remember how I came to be in the room and after I
After remembering the men who ran the circus the
Two white men who with whom
I had been traveling
Remembered but I couldn’t understand
remembered only
Eagerness kindness in their faces
As they handed me the money I had earned
And kindness in their faces as they left me for the night
And woke in darkness was
In darkness for hours and no one came
I felt my way
around the room I found
The ring in the floor remembered
but I couldn’t understand I felt my way around
Crawling and in the darkness
I after a while couldn’t be sure
My eyes were open
*Shane McCrae* is the author of *Mule* (Cleveland State University Poetry
Center, 2011), and two chapbooks, *One Neither One* (Octopus Books, 2009)
and *In Canaan* (Rescue Press, 2010). His work has appeared, or is
forthcoming, in *The Best American Poetry 2010*, *Fence*, *Agni*, *Denver
Quarterly*, *Typo*, and others.
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