Negative Blue

Negative Blue is the culmination of the cycle that won Wright the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award.

Time will append us like suit coats left out overnight
On a deck chair, loose change dead weight in the right pocket,
Silk handkerchief limp with dew,
sleeves in a slow dance with the wind.
And love will kill us--
Love, and the winds from under the earth
that grin...