“Only the water is safe”
– Jim Harrison (Day Thirteen – 28 Days of Unreason)
A piece of jade so beautiful
It took prisoner of your eyes –
Prized their tempest for itself
To become the color of the sea,
A stone that secrets rain
In its deepest stony heart.
qbit 
I will have to read this again in the morning; my brain is mush right now! But it looks cool…
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Okay, I LOVE “took prisoner of your eyes — / Prized their tempest for itself” and “A stone that secrets rain” At these points you step out of the “real” world of prose (not that the rest is prose; not at all!) and enter the neighborhood in poetry where alchemy and magic happens. Who ever has accused Jade of being a miserly hoarder and a jailer? What a horrid beast is Jade! Or how deeply alone! Or how deeply in love/infatuation/lust! Bravo!
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Thank you!! Was hoping that worked. It isn’t especially obvious, and I don’t always know if there are enough handholds to draw anyone in past “WTF?” LOL!
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Well, I started with WTF – then read a couple more times… It is the secreting of rain that baffles me and makes me work for this one. I read that as ‘tears,’ hence the stony heart. This is excellent poetry, my friend!
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“I started with WTF” – 😀 thanks for hanging in there!
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Just as I was WTF after I wrote it!
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