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James Arlington Wright
13 December 1927 – 25 March 1980 / Ohio
The Jewel
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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.
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