Air

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She spreads great wings and a tailfeather fan, and crosses a threshold made only of air.


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Elusive

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The real threshold is the space between her and me, the space between me and the world.


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The Song of the Storm

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Echo finds voice, and together they sing, in harmony, the song of the storm.



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Work

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World requires work, especially of women — even those who rule the skies.



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The Glow of Many Suns

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The lines demand a reckoning, but do not come empty-handed; they bear the gifts of light and shadow, of life, of the glow of many suns.



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The Gate

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No doors, no bars, no destination, nor even proof of existence . . . beyond the light of the sun dog's halo, his moccasins set afire by the glow of his spirit.



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Heralds

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The hawks have returned, and I know that he has sent them from beyond the thresholds, holders and heralds of his spirit.



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Before and After

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Life may be hoop, and circle, and infinite path, but it is an always, without end, before and after.




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Love

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In this moment between worlds, before the dawn, before they are lost to light of day, they whisper, a near-silent echo across the interstices,

Love.

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Metamorphosis

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Beneath white wand and purple crystal, transformed . . . metamorphosis into magic, now traveling the world of dreams.

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Veil

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They are the filter that permits the soul to look upon the night, to see, to live, to survive.



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Grief

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All paths eventually converge upon the threshold, where the shadows are no longer a lie, and grief is gone.



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Mourning

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Winter weeps, small tears that drop from branch to branch, mourning for those who, with it, will not see summer come.



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Griffin's World

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Otherworldly, this dawning of Griffin's world . . . Griffin's will in this world — in spirit, his world still.




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The Guide

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Now, she will be his guide, in a place where I cannot go with him.

If we are lucky, he will someday walk with us again

In dreams and visions

Until the day we join him there.

Note: There will be no fundraising post tonight, nor for at least the next four days. I know most will never understand this, but we have lost our guide tonight, and we are in mourning in its purest form.


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The Calm Before the Storm

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Father Sun whispers, low and gentle, "Fear not, for the storm is not my foe; it is my friend, without whom I could not bring you this beauty."




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Honeysuckle Bird

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Redbird will stay until the honeysuckle trumpets stir and stretch, birth themselves into graceful flutes . . . consumed with an inner fire that dresses them in scarlet robes to match his own.




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The Dawn Hawk

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She springs onto the morning wind and flies into the light.



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Serpentine

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For that brief in-between moment at the threshold of the storm, the world becomes serpentine.





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Within the Storm

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A fierce dance upon the threshold, a kiss within the storm in the face of clouds not yet converted.




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