Suffused to blazing chaos when the sky

Writhes into darkness and her empery.

Then throb the pensile gardens to a swoon,

The great rose-yellow petal of the moon

Curved, white and hovering above the trees,

Shivers a gelid lucency to freeze

The gold of sunset into coldest hues—

A monochrome of silver-tinted blues.

God’s pyrotechnics, shooting star cascades

Splash, sliding, sizzling, ever-whirling blades