At first, it looks like a room full of people. With a languorous certainty, they circulate, moving like the inexorable grace of a glacier, the entrancing dance of the fire. And then you notice something strange: there are no heads, no hands, no legs. They are a sea of jumpers and sweaters, moving as though [...]
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Winter Joy
My heart is so full. It's Christmas and my brother is - wonderfully, unexpectedly -home. There are no words for the joy this has brought me. So instead, I will simply wish you joy and peace of your own and leave you with a wintry poem about light in the darkest part of the year. [...]
Wild & Improbable Tales – The Winter King’s Summer
Dawn light broke through the reaching, inky fingers of the trees. Though summer was barely waning, the forest stood denuded of its leaves, as it always had. As it always would. The villagers had long stopped questioning why their wood did not bud and bloom and turn with the seasons. They knew it still lived, [...]
Winter
Just when it seems That the world has Withdrawn Into itself And skeletal trees stand testament to a Lifeless Season, We hang stars on every branch and bough And light candles in every window, Bringing warm hope To the cold night. When it seems the whole world should be Hibernating, Hidden away and Waiting [...]