Achates follows at a safe distance. Tiger lilies flash in the moonlight. Their afterimage stays with you, until her face replaces them. The Sherpas lift their burdens, Sir Edmund resumes the ascent. The coda is brief but stir- ring.
Distant strains float though the part and folly.
You wish them away. In the office there is a flutter of leases. Their afterimage stays with you, until birds replace them. RAIN Above Lake Geneva the lonely monster lumbered down the ramparts. Later, he watched the horizon from a float- ing iceberg.