• Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth

    Robert Hayden: Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
their bright ironical names
like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth
    Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.166, University of Michigan Press