Golden Worlds

"Half asleep, periodically he leaned up and adjusted the

flow of light through the shutter, thinking to himself,

as he would do through the coming months, of

Powers and his strange mandala, and of the seven

and their journey to the white gardens of the moon,

and the blue people who had come from Orion and

spoken in poetry to them of ancient beautiful worlds

beneath golden suns in the island galaxies, vanished

for ever now in the myriad deaths of the cosmos." 

J.G. Ballard