“Deadman Crossing,” “Knockemstiff,” “Hopetown” and “Hopewell Culture at Mound City” in the very underworld places of the Ohio Valley

Axis mundi, one

Two, prisons, more than one

Three, the N.P.S.

And four reasons more

All of the towns there, that

No one is really sure

Had it all together to begin with

In the extreme

For example

In Chillicothe we mean

“The grocery store

“Had been

“In that way

The town had felt strangely,

The prison is what it is

The underworld is too much to ignore

Who could live here furthermore?