The wraith of Arthur Rex stands before the lapping shore of a clearwater tarn in a high meadow. This is Llyn Dorlais. The king knows the surrounding pine pastures with their calligraphic shadows and hulks of solitary boulders splotched with lichen. The Lake of Hidden Water. He visited once on his royal tour of Armorica. […]
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The Wraith of Arthur Rex Looks Up
Above fog rummaging through the tangled darkness of forested hills, the road of souls, the Milky Way, inclines. He sees it anew. The crazed incandescence of the sky is like him, a ghost, the phantom light of a cosmos that died being born. All of Creation wanders aimlessly after the Fall, he thinks, then recalls […]
The Wraith
He glides among dogroses, daisy carpets, larkspur and rambling bryony. Every direction seems strange — and wholly natural: Acres of blooms charge the air with woven scents of summer, luring blue and white butterflies that flit among the blossoms light as faerie. Thrushes perched on stalks sling their fluting melodies into the fragrant morning. Larks […]
Little Notes from an Owl
The owl is looking for you. The owl’s voice is a question whose answer is you. The owl’s flower face has death for a sun. The owl’s neck is a wheel with spine for axle So every direction the owl goes is forward. The owl is the courage of life and death’s mystery. The owl […]
A Short Tall Tale
The Strange, Wild Provenance of the Brave Tails There was this owl wizard, Finagler, who kept starlight in an inkpot. When he dipped his beak in it and wrote upon gravestones, whatever lay dead jumped up from the rooty marl scribbled with worms and danced like children on hot sand. Over his shoulder, in the […]
River of Stars, Bridge of Shadows
Deri woke gently. Leafy shadows and flashes of forest light dappled the passenger cabin. Within her shaded hammock, she peered through lashes into a green glade of dewy fronds and somber trees. A white snake watched her from the far side of the cabin. In cobra-pose, swaying ever so slightly, it fixed her with hooded […]