POETRY FOR LIFE AND LIVING: IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW: Vignettes of Life, Tragic Heartbreak, Happy Solutions: Major Poem by Camm King:Copyright 1998:(Pg1)

JOURNEY INTO AMERICAN CITY LIFE .

THE SHADOW OF THE DARKENED MAN

THE JOURNEY
By-line, CARL SAGAN, light from the Sun
Shines its COSMOS on the Book's cover;
A child not yet swaddled in winter,
Snuggles for warmth. The subway rattles
In Grafiti Protest, knowing we are going
Down, Underground, into Rat's Alley,
where the homeless men lost their bones:
Morning Sun shining powerfully on Life,
Train rattling above, plunging downwards
from Rutland to deeper ruts of life,
Undergound,as into the BELLY OF A BEAST.

UTICA STATION, Express!To GRAND CENTRAL,
Where civilized pandemonium reigns.
On distant streets sparks of gunfire
Give way to open-ended flight:
Children bite bullets in dust of dreams
Turned to nightmare illusions of Light.

There to me HE CAME, The Darkened Man,
A shadow flitting through the night
and invited me: 'Come strike a match
in the darkness of what might be called
this city's Dilemma, where some say,
Black is not White, but White is Black.'
I say,"No need to turn History back."
He,"No need to turn It forward either,
But, conscientiously, search with me
for the grin behind this sad facsimile.'

AN AMERICAN JOURNEY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
----------------As past Director of a University of the West Indies Education Center for well over a decade, Camm King has been poet's critic and poet's poet. While still at University, he won the Allen Lane essay prize for a distinguished analysis of the work of that wonderful, now famed Nobel Prize winner, Derek Walcott.
King himself has several works for which he is seeking the right publisher, among them, THE MANIFESTO, a classic in some of its humorous comments about Caribbean politics; ORIGIN OF THE SHADOW, and the currently available work, IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, written while traveling the MTA subway.
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