Author: Matt Gallagher
Cites
- Stephen Crane (1)
- IN: Young Blood (2016) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter -- bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
"Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."
FROM: In the Desert, (1895), Poem, US