This page depicts three horizonal, large, calligraphic markings possibly symbolizing chaos on a background of light white cross-hatching layered on blue and red color in the upper 80%. The lower 20% is a solid black color. The red and blue backgound might symbolize bleeding and black color at the lower portion of the drawing death. The poem reads "future began - the night of long white words - that day was reckoned the first day of it - the opening number." Here Phillips might be referring to The Night of the Long Knives {white words?} or more commonly called in Germany the "Röhm-Putsch," a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political executions. Most of those killed were members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary Brownshirts [Wikipedia]. Adolf Hitler moved against the SA and its leader, Ernst Röhm, because he saw the independence of the SA and the penchant of its members for street violence as a direct threat to his newly gained political power. He also wanted to conciliate leaders of the Reichswehr, the official German military who feared and despised the SA"”in particular Röhm's ambition to absorb the Reichswehr into the SA under his own leadership. Finally, Hitler used the purge to attack or eliminate critics of his new regime, especially those loyal to Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, as well as to settle scores with old enemies. At least 85 people died during the purge, although the final death toll may have been in the hundreds,[2][3] and more than a thousand perceived opponents were arrested.[2] Most of the killings were carried out by the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei), the regime's secret police. The purge strengthened and consolidated the support of the Reichswehr for Hitler. It also provided a legal grounding for the Nazi regime, as the German courts and cabinet quickly swept aside centuries of legal prohibition against extra-judicial killings to demonstrate their loyalty to the regime. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.