Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Small Stone #24

An Old Story

I have lost the fire.
Now I must push my luck back
up the stony hill.

3 comments:

  1. Prometheus, or Sisyphus, or something in between?

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  2. I just finished reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods, where the god identities slipped around quite a bit. But yes. I was listening to Dar Williams at the time and snatched some phrasing, added the mythology and there you go...

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  3. it is a frightening proposition to lose one's fire. if i lose mine, i hope the rest of the pyre slips away with it.

    xo
    erin

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The chicken crossed the road. That's poultry in motion.


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