EPILOG
Snow falls
on an hourglass:
Inside -
an owl flies a uranium knight
to a blue square somewhere in Antartica.
Somewhere else -
an astrologer
plays Stardust
on a bassoon
while a Greek oracle
tries to guess the next tune.
The knight waits silently in the cold
for a laser line to illuminate his odyssey.
He does not recall the claws of the owl
that will soon carry him once again
to a small slab of white ice
where a balloon floats by.
The knight, we learn, believes in magic.
He does not know his fate lies in a song.
SYSTÈME SOLAIR
