"Dragonlance Dragons, Vol. 1 - The Dragons of Krynn" - читать интересную книгу автора (DragonLance)

crossing your sunlight
obscuring the moon
as the red sky blossoms
in fire and confusion.

Do not say you awaited
the flight and the shadow
the first incandescence
of your villages:
O do not say you expected
this fire, this turning,
the breath of the coming year
as it passes
above you and through you,
bearing no promise
no memory of grief and effacement.

Do not tell your children
that you understood
the explosion of air and light,
the last implausible burning
after the wings
had passed above you,
the red wind exploding
like fire in dry thistle.
They must not remember us,
so that when we return
our price is exacted
from copper to diamond,
and above your country
the thorn trees spread
over collapsing time
as the past and the future
close into single flame.

II. Dragonhoard

In the heart of the lair
lies the fortunate substance:
lost in the incandescence of sapphire,
drowned in an attar of violets.
In the heart of the lair
in forgotten cloisters of granite
down where a second darkness
covers the light carnelian,
there in our midst, we imagine,
lie the stones of redemption
where we have relinquished them
to a light so brilliant
that after the days of sun