The Fruitful Cavern


The blue image mellows

In this night of blossom.

Grown to fat shade,

I sleep the deep passage,

Blown to soft depth

Here in the formless.

Bodies of shadow

Dance in the dark,

And I return

To fruitful cavern.

- Sally Clay
1961


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