Viking_Yearbook_68

I I And the ashes swirled about him in clouds and rained down about him again. Behind him the ashes fell and before him the goldenness shone through the greenness and poured down on him. Epilogue His eyes saw red. He opened them and a bobbing, golden spot of light turned the blue beyond the green to brass and the redness was gone. He closed his eyes and the redness returned. He was alone and he was glad he was alive. He moved a muscle and nothing happened. He was sure he could move. How else had he come out of the city and away from his pulverized friends? Of course he could move .. . but he couldn't move. He opened his eyes slowly this time and the redness changed to blue green. He squinted against the sun and saw gray grass. Beyond, was green grass. He won· de red about the gray grass because grass was supposed to be green and because the grass beyond was green. He closed his eyes and let the redness wash over him and cover the gray and the green and the blue and the gold and the brass. And the little gold sun in the gray grass bobbed in the breeze.