Mimes of North Tuan Conjures Coundsmoor Brook

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Roll yourself into a serpent skin, enter the current, swivel and swim,   plunge north, swing your hips beyond Montrose, the castle at Wick.   The grooved ware pot on its side says come. I’ll make you gush, whispers the … Read More

Hermit of Burrian

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He sees the swallow roll on her back without falling. He listens for her song day after day. His plot is narrow, he wears a heart of clay.   He bolts the window. Is that breathing under cloths in the … Read More

How to Approach the Pier

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With a bowline tied to your monkey-fist, with your heaving-rope coiled sun-wise, bow to Faray, engine in reverse.   With your stern door lined up to the ramp, the quarry to starboard, slumped where the stones for the pier were … Read More