Auden’s Blessing
Then, together with the rest of them, they lifted me, kicked open my bedroom door, and tossed me onto a pile of soft, snow-white cushions on the balcony.
The star cluster above looked like countless bright eyes, dense and endless, twinkling lightly in the unfathomable sky. The radiant glow of Wanarheim lit up half the heavens. Countless flame-like flowers trembled in the starry sky. Gold and silver, black and red—blazing colors, dazzling light—fluttered and scattered across the world in a magnificent display.
The firelight coalesced into words—huge, beautiful letters that filled most of Wanarheim’s night sky: