The Jewel: After James Wright

2015, brooch, hand-engraved fine silver, 9-carat yellow gold pin, 37x37mm.

The Jewel

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.

- James Wright, 1963.