Fleeing and Flying:: After this there followed a cloud of the birds together, swarming blindly into the light of day, and in their fury of flight, beating wings, and mailed claws, arrested for a moment the progress of the eyes and mouth which would have just closed in...
Egress for Souls:: Panic surged through his limbs, and he backed against the wood of the heavy doors, the iron molding digging into his back. The door trembled slightly at his touch. At this point, Meiyan felt for a split second that he would rather face this hideous...
Distress & Devilment:: Run! Haro was now fairly dancing in indecision between bolting from the street and returning to the middle of the street to drag Meiyan with him. Run! he urged again. It was a force of silent but frenetic aggressive energy, and fear was upon...
Called:: Meiyan walked like a stranger for an amount of time that is of little consequence. When one is a stranger in a strange place, and begins to feel the homelessness of an unrevealed purpose, time seems to bend, or stretch, or stop. He rarely paused to consider...
Being in a City:: I saw this young man on his way. We can call him Meiyan. He was, for all his reading, and for all his knowledge, roaming aimlessly through the city plazas and streets, finding no place to sit, no place to rest. This grand city was a product of many...
A Beginning:: He saw it written clearly there, among the words that he had seen so often swimming before him, and knew so well. Get up and go. This he had heard many times as well—spoken to the languishing and the failing, as well as the wealthy and adventurous. The...
Psalm 34 Psalm 34 is an acrostic poem, where each line of the Hebrew poem begins with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew aleph-bet. How I Lost My Shadow This psalm is many stories simultaneously. It is David’s story, and the story of his relationship to his...
