peace : ii † peace now, though purgatory fires were hot they always had a heart something like ice that coldly peered and wondered, suffering not nor pleased in any park, nor paradise of slightly swelling breasts and beautiful arms and throat engorged with very carnal blood it coldly peered and wondered, “strong God your charms are glorious, i remember solitude before youth towered we knew a time of truth to have eyes was nearly rapture” : peace now, for war will find the cave that childhood found and youth : ten million lives are stolen and not one star dulled : wars die out, life will die out, death cease : beauty lives always and the beauty of peace ~ † robinson jeffers, "the truce and the peace : ii" : november, 1918 tamar and other poems. peter boyle : new york, 1924 cf : robinson jeffers, roan stallion & tamar and other poems boni & liveright : 1925 https://robinsonjeffersassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RST-OP-post.pdf sound design by rjh and suno v6 illustration by rjh and chat-gpt 6.1 sol (light)
