He saw clearly in his mind the little Adrenal glands perched on the red-brown kidneys, As if all his doomed tissues became transparent, Pouring in these passions their violent secretion Into his blood-stream, raising the tension unbearably. And the thyroids: tension, tension.


In: Tim Hunt (ed.), The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (Volume 2)

Robinson Jeffers Quotes

He saw clearly in his mind the little Adrenal glands perched on the red-brown kidneys, As if all his doomed tissues became transparent, Pouring in...

He saw clearly in his mind the little Adrenal glands perched on the red-brown kidneys, As if all his doomed tissues became transparent, Pouring in...

He saw clearly in his mind the little Adrenal glands perched on the red-brown kidneys, As if all his doomed tissues became transparent, Pouring in...

He saw clearly in his mind the little Adrenal glands perched on the red-brown kidneys, As if all his doomed tissues became transparent, Pouring in...