Halo by Victor Kennedy
On a warm September day
We were walking along the Bluffs
You started to run and I followed
Until we fell on the grass together
I on my back
And you leaning over me
The sun behind you lit up your hair
Like a golden halo
And I saw an angel
Victor Kennedy is a professor of English and American Literature at the Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia. He is the author of Strange Brew: Metaphors of Magic and Science in Rock Music, and the editor of several volumes of essays on the topic of words and music. He has been a farm hand, a truck driver, and a lawyer, and is an avid amateur musician.