"Yeah, well there's nothing we can do, and like you said, we're not at war."

A red star

Burned fiercely in the black void,

Then died.

—Keran O'Brien

THE SEA AT EVENING

It was in the purple evening, as the moon rose on the sand,

When I heard the restless waters calling me across the land;

And I left the moors and meadows and the forests stretching free,

Left the wind-swept fields behind me, and went down to meet the sea.