Final Approach to a Letters-of-the-Alphabet Prompt

OK,
go
with Rimbaud.

A seems black
to me too—a cave
with no flashlight in it.

E seeps
like tears through weeping fingers
endlessly.

I is really
A-E—
a black, tarry sea.

O is a ho-
wling mouth painted red—
Olivier’s Othello.

U is a blue,

without one cloud,
that’ll swallow you!