
For Clancy
Death didn’t look how I imagined he would.

Death didn’t look how I imagined he would.

Nine dragons perched on nine towers, chained.

Silhouetted against the darkening horizon, a hand reaches.

“It is time,” Sun says.
Again? I almost sigh; it’s pointless. I trudge towards the horizon, harpoon in hand.

The reflection shatters into a thousand shards, resplendent, subversive, cutting edges catching light.

Her father sat her in front of a piano as a child, held her in his lap, brought music into her world.

The road is dark now, fogged with doubt and cold.