The Sphinx and the Knights left the forest clearing to the birds and creatures of the quiet places. The two knights rode upon their horses and the Sphinx made good progress on its four clawed feet. Where shall we be when we have got there, said the Sphinx, not in any manner out of breath.ContinueContinue reading “Journey to the Feet of a Woman”
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What Should I Be
If I am to be a rock. Shall I be a rock, fashioned to a shape just so? To take my place and make my home in the pedestal or column of the façade of some mighty building. I will bear the weight of others, that they in turn might rise ethereally into the clouds.ContinueContinue reading “What Should I Be”
Looking for a Mirror
The lost creature decided that asking random individuals that he may come across was a waste of time. They each seemed to wear blinkers fashioned by their own prejudices. E chose to find a shiny surface that might give e a true reflection of eself. E said to eself as e went, What shall IContinueContinue reading “Looking for a Mirror”
The Lost One
These are my stories, said the Sphinx to the Blue and Gold Knights, there are more narrative threads upon which you may wish to pull, but I leave that to your judgement as you have been so patient and listened so faithfully to my song. The Blue and Gold Knights awoke as if from aContinueContinue reading “The Lost One”
The Sphinx’s Eyes
The Sphinx now, here we see her, is come away another world, what is it? Another world and coming hence towards, to us, by us, she sees so many. The Sphinx’s eye, to discern for another place, another level, still here, but not now, sees so many things. Sometimes she must blink. To believe. ToContinueContinue reading “The Sphinx’s Eyes”
Sphinx in the South: Interview with a Penguin
Looking South now, Southern Cross, anti-clockwise water, oceans, isolate. The Sphinx sought the seat of power in that place. So, said the Sphinx, you are the head Penguin around here. I prefer Empress, said the Penguin. Please address me as Your Majesty. No problem, Your Majesty. I come to you from a land mired inContinueContinue reading “Sphinx in the South: Interview with a Penguin”
Sphinx in the North
The Sphinx turned her face to the cold North and was in conversation with the Ice that lay there in mountains and floating plains. Well, oh Great Ice place, I expect you have heard from the Sun and the West Wind that I come as a supplicant, asking favour. The Ice was silent and flatContinueContinue reading “Sphinx in the North”
Sphinx In The East
Now and now, what a time it was, it was the time when all the knights of the world came together beneath the great banner of the Sphinx. To push and push away the ruination of that nation in peril. They pushed and stood as firm as can be, but many were lost, so thatContinueContinue reading “Sphinx In The East”
The Perfect Circle
In a small town not far from here, in a small house with a garden, lived a woman and her three children. In spring she planted vegetables and tended her fruit bushes and waited and watched for her garden to begin to help feed her children. As soon as the elderflowers were in bloom, sheContinueContinue reading “The Perfect Circle”
The Sphinx Looks Out
When the sphinx woke once more, she lay in a darkening cell. Stone by stone, mortar by mortar, her eyes raised the walls to the blackened timbers of the ceiling far above. A short and narrow window with not shutter, nor bar, made the light just a memory around the cell, its dark corners allContinueContinue reading “The Sphinx Looks Out”
The Guardians of the Cave 