Behind the Scenes at a Bomb-Plot Trial.

Poems that the defendant wrote in prison tracked the genre's well-worn themes: injustice, isolation and regret. In neat script on lined paper, the poems, by David Williams IV, were written between December 2009 and August 2010, as Mr. Williams and three other men awaited trial on charges that they had left what they thought were real bombs outside of two Bronx synagogues and had planned to shoot down military cargo planes. ''Cover me like a blanket to conceal me from disdain and hurt,'' Mr. Williams wrote on Dec. 5, 2009. ''25 to life lingers above my head like a dead man's rope.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]