Drum hadley biography of abraham

Apr 18, &#; -- "Ismail-Ax." These two words were scribbled in red ink on the arm of Seung-hui Cho, the year-old Virginia Tech student who killed 32 others and then himself in a bloody rampage Monday.

Cho was an English major and poet whose writings had raised eyebrows in the past.

But what could "Ismail-Ax" mean? Is the phrase spiritual, poetic or just a bizarre expression of a troubled student?

One "Nightline" viewer recognized "Ismail-Ax" from a poem he had read by Drum Hadley, the s beat poet.

The poem is called the "The Goat Ranchers" and in it Hadley, under the pseudonym Yonder Ridgeline, writes about "Ishmael's Ax." Here's the excerpt:

Went where they'd herded goats when they were kids,
Went where they were lovers,
Went where they were married here, those fifty years ago.
Traces of Ishmael's ax on the scarred trunks of the cedar trees,
Crossing the canyon