Burning Reminder

Star, glimmer, asterisk
swimming in the gleaming
sea, that second hand tick
our time is turned back to

A single red eye floating,
image of then, was she tired,
was she bestial? Was there
an animal inside, and is there
still a crimson creature buried
beneath the polite surface?

A shock of flaming hair,
a fox-faced resolution, no
name recalled, just one
burning eye reminder.