Cell Block on Chena River

First:       Brother, remove the tool marks on your scathed skin, brush your tattoos with nettles, smear bearberry juice in the gashes. Crack open the jail-seed. Second:   Tear away the bars which restrain your lean, spare life. Bend your curves in a knot. Brother, smudge your saw-tooth edges. Third:      Cut red seaweed to conceal your gray cadaver; start wetting your skin down; after scraping, drip your bowels of blood, change into wolf. Fourth:    The savannah sparrow flies north. In speech, smell fine-grained hawthorn. Collapse your voice into bark and howl.