There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.
--James Wright
(flaming jewels)
Graphic: "Flaming June" by Frederick Leighton, 1895.
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