First Love: A Tome of Stars Companion

In Anthesis: Item 1 of Tome of Stars, the poem Trilogy opens with this quatrain:

The first, a golden fairy springtide spawned—
I raised a temple, holy scripts adored.
She kissed another, and her heart was gone;
She left me shattered, all beliefs abhorred.

First Love is about that golden fairy. Her light was a filigreed Elven lantern in the woodlands, magical, to be adored, but still an earthly marvel dimmed years later in the greater brilliance of the Stargirl. And yet the poet once loved her (and part of him ever will). After the first 9 musical albums, he felt the nearly 40-year-old books of poetry about her deserved some songs. There are only 12 songs in First Love, the last one with lyrics written in 2026 to transition this work to Tome of Stars — thus, eleven poems selected from much larger collections of older works. It is therefore only a short summary. It is not the full story. But, it is enough.