Vision
(Inspired by Iwasaki Eri painting: Blue Bird)
With closed eyes
I see the blue bird
resting on my crown.
Beneath a flowered gown
the hills and valleys of my body,
the red rivers of my blood.
All around me
in their profound silence
the falling leaves.
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