"Zohra Greenhalgh - Contrarywise" - читать интересную книгу автора (Greenhalgh Zohra)

meaning of Podiddley; to the outraged, young Afghan woman on the cover
of National Geographic, June 1985тАФmay you be answered; to my beloved
kin, Desiree Luena Bell, for embodying the sweet trueness of friendship;
and finally to that irrepressible rogue, TricksterтАФhere's to your great, wild
heart and endless Improoovements on my life.

Better known as Divine Meddling...


The Trickster's Touch
PART I

He came to her when her world was frozen
And the dormant dreamed of Spring;
He came to her on her own asking
Her need his open door.

His ways cut deep,
His smile sly
And forged in some ancient, secret placeтАФ
His black eyes exacting.
He was a summer wind in autumn,
Circling the stillborn house of her soul,
Prying and piercing
Until she reached weeping-blind
For the promise of his unknown.

Stark and hungry for essentials,
Seeking bone and sinew
Under layers of wool and homespun chatter,
He shattered her at Trickster's Hallows
And left,
The wild poison of his thaw
An aching kiss upon her lips,
His touch
Searing.

He was the invited stranger,
The masked reveller of the street.
And she?
She was the Great Fool's common ground;
She was Greatkin Rimble's He.

тАФKelandris of Suxonli
circa Jinnaeon


The Panthe'kinarok Prologue

In truth, there was no eldest or youngest among the Greatkin for they had