Patriot Ace McGill
July 22, 2001 – October 22, 2015

We found you,
a white flame in the forest,
white hot and snow white,
fur like cream, like pearls,
like the luster of the great open,
like a wide heaven.
You were a shine, a gleam,
a luminous glow,
on this spinning planet,
a lyrical greeter at the end of the day,
the composure of the night.
Your own end,
your own last day,
was like the remaining lonely cloud,
disappearing beyond the twilight horizon.