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Her legs must be long as rockets, rubberyas chicken bones soaked in vinegar. She must be ethereal, hands like talons to stoke the tender coalshe gathers in the woods. She...
Love's Idea Envisioned by a Satyr
Her legs must be long as rockets, rubberyas chicken bones soaked in vinegar. She must be ethereal, hands like talons to stoke the tender coalshe gathers in the woods. She...
We call it a starfield,which seems as nice a name as any.There is, after all,peace in creation’screeping self-destruction. Even before humans slippedships into the sea,never mind the skies,we softened the...
Starfields
We call it a starfield,which seems as nice a name as any.There is, after all,peace in creation’screeping self-destruction. Even before humans slippedships into the sea,never mind the skies,we softened the...
The noise made by the 60,000 caged birds was tremendousbut the stench which hovered in the airwas strong enough to change the weather.60,000 Ibises lived in the necropolis,flapping wings, clacking...
Winged Beings of the Necropolis
The noise made by the 60,000 caged birds was tremendousbut the stench which hovered in the airwas strong enough to change the weather.60,000 Ibises lived in the necropolis,flapping wings, clacking...
Maybe some memories run deeper than bloodthey hide within the marrowetch history onbloomingbrains. Formed in the womb, they areour ancestors’ whispersin fetal ears. The Gold Mountain and silver streets are...
American Dreams
Maybe some memories run deeper than bloodthey hide within the marrowetch history onbloomingbrains. Formed in the womb, they areour ancestors’ whispersin fetal ears. The Gold Mountain and silver streets are...
We fly with the storm,Spinning too fast for themTo catch us. The fuel feeds us,Keeps us safeFrom the monsters. But our world is shrinking,Our numbers dying.Collision deaths, Once a thing...
The Storm Creatures
We fly with the storm,Spinning too fast for themTo catch us. The fuel feeds us,Keeps us safeFrom the monsters. But our world is shrinking,Our numbers dying.Collision deaths, Once a thing...
A legendary trove slumbers under sandscape,tempting Muslim and zendik[1] alike:hopefuls brave distant vistas for Samsama[2],mythic symbol of battlefield heroism.Advancing upon mundane wilderness,a Bedouin urchin recites memorized cipher;magically prompting the cavernous...
The Mouth of the Cave
A legendary trove slumbers under sandscape,tempting Muslim and zendik[1] alike:hopefuls brave distant vistas for Samsama[2],mythic symbol of battlefield heroism.Advancing upon mundane wilderness,a Bedouin urchin recites memorized cipher;magically prompting the cavernous...
The last people travel like the first.Everywhere we go mirrors the same desolation. There is no more food.The water that’s left is all brownEver since mushroom clouds imploded it has...
The Amenities of Heaven
The last people travel like the first.Everywhere we go mirrors the same desolation. There is no more food.The water that’s left is all brownEver since mushroom clouds imploded it has...