The White Anger

by Benjamin Oldham


The glaring white empty field blank sky,

the formless thing shaped by impressions

but with nothing to make of it

looks me redshot in the eyes

and strikes at what it sees,

as I have looked myself

and struck it right in front of me,

the glaring white empty mind blank slate,

the formless person shaped by impressions

but with nothing to make of it.


No, I glared back into the white

and saw it in the whipping snow

transgressing me as I transgressed

myself, and did not even know.