I am Amber Light
stop-start face all kind and good
under my black-headed gull's black hood
not long-lived but steady
not come not go but ready
Best Supporting Actress
sympathetic best friend
of the scene second-from-the-end
one of many meek sleek brown mice
or with a wisecrack offering advice
and hmmms and ahhhs and ohs and tuts
and ifs and buts
while others wallow in their melodramas
my landscapes calm untroubled panoramas
Second-in-Command
standing with knowledgeable smile and folded hands
nodding behind the leader of the land
the tyrant the despot the king
not and never will be the Next Big Thing
Lady-in-Waiting
in the shadows in my dark lace
masked in black my gibbous face
Sirius B
little dark star of heavy matter
born to foil to balance not to flatter
not satellite but one of one
waltzing a furious infinite with some blazing fat sun
I am Amber Light
for the brief time between born and dead
my yellow face showing in between
stern impassive Red
and generous Green
