Tag: gene wolfe
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SOTT
With Vodalus’ clique Eating Thecla sticks Gaining memories Didn’t protect now Chewing her neck Like a dental stick Besotted by exultants In the tower, Master Ultan New Sun, the Ultimate Fealty from black brothers Masks identity smothering Claw in my hand burning Lore through repetition earning Second read, first time learning Cloak made of fuligin,…
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Hand of the Autarch
Flower of many petals peeled by my hand I remove books from church canons With gauntleted hands I carve glyphs drawing rifts between planets I have ridden strange axes through black places At collapsing dwarves oversaw phasing deaths of galaxies like galleys vast-masted reduced to flotsam by fantasy weapons.
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Citadel of the Autarch
Up in the northern reaches Breaches in the mountains Through which Ascian armies file Alien crafts patrol the skies, without disguise.