October 12, 1999
.
She was autumn
the space between brilliance
gray chill and leaf mold.
.
Her beauty was sliced
by the crystal breath of the dragon
and the stars sank behind her eyes.
She drifted away in fragments of amber
Diminished in the darkness of her time
.
‘Swift as a spirit hastening to his task
of glory and of good. The Sun sprang forth'
he banished the darkness which held the shadow
of the beast