Listen to Brandon L. Rucker and his band while enjoying this page
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
— Fire and Ice, Robert Frost
Pine trees spear the lilac sky draping quiet
snows. Water cascades down the mountain,
sun glistening froth as liquid diamonds —
The same glimmer in your eyes. This secret
place where we first kissed, fire melting ice,
hasn't changed like the rest of the world.
There, see that rock jutting from the hard ice?
It's still blazoned with our names.
Tomorrow we must ride into battle.
Tonight, we make love.
He reaches for her,
coiling his long tail behind her, draws her closer.
His hot breath spews fire, her emerald eyes spark
greener than her innermost lace — now splay open
for him. Clasping, they fold into each other's
leather wings. The sound of water and wings beating
against ice, and the fire of dragons' cries:
the only music in the air.
Fire and Ice by Christine Graham
Christine Graham is a graphic designer with a forte in illustration. She has designed logos for companies such as Henshin! Online and It's a Trapp Entertainment, which are small companies dedicated to tokousatsu (Japanese for special effects movies). Most of my work consists of science fiction and fantasy illustrations. Christine is an undergraduate at University of Tennessee Knoxville working towards her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. She is a life-long resident of Oak Ridge, TN, one of the third-generation Oak Ridger’s since her grandparents came to work at the Y-12 nuclear processing plant in 1942. Christine credits her grandmother for her interest in science, especially astronomy and geology.
