Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the
Light —
The marrow in the bone
We dreamed was safe... the blood in the veins, the
sap in the tree
Were springs of Deity.


"Three Poems of the Atomic Bomb: Dirge for the New Sunrise" - The Canticle of the Rose (1949)


Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light — The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe... the blood in the veins, the sap in the...

Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light — The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe... the blood in the veins, the sap in the...

Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light — The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe... the blood in the veins, the sap in the...

Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light — The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe... the blood in the veins, the sap in the...