ahab as luddite (Quakerism)

[Terrance]

...nourishing ghosts of dandelions, no one to plow them up. As if the
dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

  Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
  And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow
  zones,
  Growing among black folk as among white,
  Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the
  same, I receive the same.
  And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.

  This grass is very dark...

  They are alive and well somewhere;
  The smallest sprout shows there is really no death,
  And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait
  at the end to arrest it,
  And ceased the moment life appeared.


                      --W.W.