of the darkest color possible, that of
soot, coal, the sky on a moonless night
in open country, or a small hole in a
hollow object, designating this color;
(also) so near this as to have no
recognizable color. jet-, pitch-, raven-
. of coffee served without milk or
cream. I enclosed in a glass some
great black-bodied spiders with short
legs. black plumed hawk. fade to or
from, carbon in its purest form, root,
rot, celestial body incapable of
emitting light, invisible to the eye:
those radiations of unknown origin
which pass this way through opaque
bodies. tellurium, tobacco, Malevich’s
Square and Goya’s Saturn Devouring
His Son, ankle, music, wing-edge,
stone in the corner of the Kaaba, of
deep water, of clouds, melancholia,
the Duke of Burgundy’s sleeve, just
beyond violet, lung, magic, opal,
pepper, petroleum, hair, silk, blue-
black: as soil, as soap, as the pupil of
an eye, as necrosis, gunpowder…also
with the capital initial.
