Eric Walker: Selected Poems


Edited by Raymond Foye and Scott Walker


         


Eric Walker Sketchbook, 1993



Rimbaud

       

Youth. Through the
glass encasement of mystic
passion.  Grief encased
in a sea of green absinthe.
Tiger of darkness boiling,
take strides against the
coming Dawn.  Day of Fire
and morning of tongues
in sweaty blankets.
Orange doors into
the black Metropolis.
Golden cage from which
Attila hangs his Cross.
Empty birth still in
lungs of Hashish.





Reprinted by kind permission of the Regents of the University of California,
Bancroft Library, Berkeley. Gift of Diane Walker Murray