EXIT TROUBADOUR

The setting sun

Sinks slowly behind

The snowflamed mountain range.

I am not here.

I haven’t been

For years.

There’s a calm

That explains it as it

Perforates the fields

And then sublimates

For one last time

The mountains’ icy shields.

The mist made here

Is all that our

Elegy shall be,

The shunned sun

Still appealing,

Its rind left on the sea.