Last night,
      returning to the open place,
      falling free again
      from the narrow journey of purpose -
      and opening wide
      my eyes and heart again,
      through recollections
      of last winter's
      trial, defeat, and triumph...

      Last winter I loved another:
      another world,
      another master.

      Last winter I was far from you,
      and so much closer.
      Last winter I was given in sacrifice
      to this great pyre -
      my life;
      a burning wheel;
      a narrow fire.


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