peering through the twilight highlights a low backdrop sun glistening through scorching tears of liquified plasma the Foxfire gushes forth a stream of heat and all before it turns to steam and smoke fire and flame inferno and ash "Another mission complete," he radios in "Good job, Foxfire-2," she answers promptly anonymous voices that dance back and forth while the flames lick at the foot of the forest the light from the fired salvo intensifies as the light from the sun fades from view he returns home confident he can go back tomorrow and pick up where he left off if anything should remain Warrior-Poet In Profile Name: Alexander Conorrbin Rank: MechWarrior Unit: 3rd Lyran Guard Regiment, House Steiner Assignment: Court Duty, Tharkad, The Lyran Commonwealth BattleMech: FXR-4R Foxfire, The Will-'o-the- Whisper Nickname: "Laureate of Lancaster" Favorite Poetic Forms and Styles: villanelles; free verse Major Awards Received: The Duchess Steiner Award of Fine Arts; 3023 Lancaster Lifetime Literary Achievement Award; Platinum Lyre Verse Challenge of 3019 (3rd place); Skye-High 3011 Zinc Medallion (Unformed Scansion Division, Combat Thematic Subcategory). Featured Poem: "Fox-Twilight-Fire" Dedication: Duchess Katrina Steiner Reprinted with permission from BattleBards: 31st Century Warrior-Poets and Their Poetry (sixth edition), Ty-Sen Jay Ay (editor), Excalibur Press, New Avalon, 3025. Back to BattleTechnology 5 Table of Contents Back to BattleTechnology List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 1988 by Pacific Rim Publishing. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com