From the Tower of Observation  

 

 


Reaching out with subtle sense,
past the horde that, roaring, rings
the shining Circle of defense,
her thought travels –
 

past the forbidding desert plain,
the leaguer of the Watching Things,
the silent House of the soul's bane,
the ancient Road -
 

beyond the slopes that lie past sight,
through the dead air unknown to wings,
up to the void bereft of light,
the perished stars.

 

 

 

© Banks Miller

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