Control and oppression

• the colour blood...

  which defines us
• the white wings are prescribed issue; ...

  they are to keep us from seeing but also from being seen
• Gilead is...

  within you
• this smile of blood...

  is what fixes the attention
• [the bodies] the way gravity pulls them down...

  and there's no life any more to hold them up
• we were losing the taste for freedom, ...

  already we were finding these walls secure
• a flurry among...

  the shoals of cars
• (violent verbs of the Eyes capturing a man)

  leap ... grab ... slam
• shark...

  on the prowl
• love is not...

  the point