I remember the day Audrey Hepburn died. I was eight years old, and I had never seen my grandmother so distraught. She bunched a tissue against her eyes and her voice broke, as though the face of Audrey was not an image on celluloid, but
‘Neath the ice there lies, hidden from my eyes,
A brightness now dormant and dimmed.
In the deep, cold ground, far from sight and sound,
Waits a tulip with scarlet brimmed.
Never I hear in the wood dead and drear
The life that is raging within
The sap in the bough