Does Cormac McCarthy ever write in verse?

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Here’s another odd and obscure question.

I’m reading “Empire of the Summer Moon,” a history of the Comanche Indians in Texas, and the author provides a quote from Cormac McCarthy on the dedication page. This quote appears to be from “All the Pretty Horses,” and is laid out in lines as though it were verse.

To my untutored ear it sounds like it may have the rhythm of open verse of some kind, too. (I don’t “get” poetry anymore than McCarthy “gets” modern writers.)

Has anyone out there ever caught Cormac McCarthy writing passages in verse for some effect?

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Ok.

Here is the quote from the dedication page of “Empire of the Summer Moon,” in what appears to be a line form of verse:
The desert wind would salt their ruins and there
would be nothing, no ghost or scribe, to tell any
pilgrim in his passing how it was that people had
lived in this place and in this place had died.

                                               -----Cormac McCarthy

So is this just good prose organized in apparent verse form by the page designer of this book or is it, in fact, verse? Does McCarthy ever write descriptive or narrative passages in verse?

Anyone know…care?