here was the cafeteria...it was almost as though it had journeyed to meet him...the night was so blue...how does blue feel...or red or gold or any other color...if colors could be heard he could paint most wondrous tunes...symphonious... think... the dulcet clear tone of a blue like night...of a red like pomegranate juice...like Edith’s lips...of the fairy tones to be heard in a sunset...like rubies shaken in a crystal cup...of the symphony of Fania...and silver...and gold...he had heard the sound of gold...but they weren’t the sounds he wanted to catch...no... they must be liquid...not so staccato but flowing variations of the same caliber...there was no one in the cafe as yet...he sat and waited...
Richard Bruce Nugent 's prose composition in FIRE!!, "Smoke, Lilies and Jade," has the distinction of being the first published work written from an explicitly homosexual perspective by a black author.
