Greetings! Every week throughout the summer, BOA's staff and interns will share one of our favorite poems from our over 300 collections of poetry. This week, Intern Noah selected a poem from Diana, Charles, & the Queen  by William Heyen. Keep an eye on the BOA Blog this week for a guest post from Noah with more from this collection. 

Boy King

Five hundred years ago, this movement
in the tomb of Tutankhamen:
a gold-leaved chair collapses, dust
swirls up in cerement darkness, then

the long settling of motes. In this way, a poem
breaks down into the gold & dust of time,
atom by atom. But the masked self
bears eternal witness to its hieroglyph.

Diana, Charles, & the Queen is available from the BOA Bookstore.

Catch up on your summer reading with BOA's Summer Sale—going on now! Take 30% off all BOA Bookstore orders for a limited time with promo code READBOA18!