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Sun, dark sun / Sun of black void heat / Sun of the torrid mid-day's horrific darkness.
Behold my hair twisting and going black. / Behold my eyes turn tawny yellow / Negroid; / See the milk of northern spume / Coagulating and going black in my veins / Aromatic as frankincense.
Columns dark and soft / Sunblack men / Soft shafts, sunbreathing mouths / Eyes of yellow, golden sand / As frictional, as perilous, explosive as brimstone.
Rock, waves of dark heat; / Waves of dark heat, rock, sway upwards / Waver perpendicular.
What is the horizontal rolling of water / Compared to the flood of black heat that rolls upward past my eyes? / _Taormina._