lovelier than you are now,
everything is more beautiful
because we are doomed.
The roaring seas and
many a dark range of mountains
lie between us –
We will never be here again
like that star of the waning summer
who beyond all stars rises
bathed in the ocean stream
to glitter in brilliance ... ”
*Jan assembled the above poem entirely of lines from The Iliad. In doing so, she has attracted our most famous author yet to Friday Flash Fiction