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The Prodigal Son's Older Brother Wonders About The Right And Left Path, Dirk J. Verhulst Mar 1991

The Prodigal Son's Older Brother Wonders About The Right And Left Path, Dirk J. Verhulst

The Mythic Circle

I recognized first the old limp as you walked over the horizon on the road which disappears directly to the left of the sun


Letters Of Comment, Joe Christopher, Angelee Sailer Anderson, Joan Marie Verba, Erin Lale, Anne Valley, Gwenyth E. Hood, Charles R. Schabel Mar 1991

Letters Of Comment, Joe Christopher, Angelee Sailer Anderson, Joan Marie Verba, Erin Lale, Anne Valley, Gwenyth E. Hood, Charles R. Schabel

The Mythic Circle

Letters of Comment, sent in from readers in Mythic Circle #11


The Dream She Never Told You / The River Of Glass / Wooden Masks, Howard Tessler, Zan Agzigian Mar 1991

The Dream She Never Told You / The River Of Glass / Wooden Masks, Howard Tessler, Zan Agzigian

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The Dream She Never Told You: Colors dark and somber from a world buried deep in secrets and lore. The River of Glass: dream rocks in the lonely river black rocks smooth the water’s ripple in a mixture of reflection Wooden Masks: i felt the wake of wooden masks, and wept for city lights through swaying branches, raised


Signs Of The Times, Gwenyth E. Hood Mar 1991

Signs Of The Times, Gwenyth E. Hood

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The Cherry spread her blossoms in the fall White and dainty among the golden leaves, Before the deep-red-ivy coated wall


Red Hawk Song / Mount Lowe 1978 / Higher, David Sparenberg, Paul Newman Mar 1991

Red Hawk Song / Mount Lowe 1978 / Higher, David Sparenberg, Paul Newman

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Red Hawk Song: I admit that I love you. My heart sings strongly through the fires of my body. Mount Lowe 1978: Ruins rambled, too well sifted Higher: Watching the crows' realm, treetop mopers amidst cloud erasers of the blue.


The Silencebringers, David Sparenberg Mar 1991

The Silencebringers, David Sparenberg

The Mythic Circle

The man who loves the earth whose love is genuine


Medicine Cord, David Sparenberg Mar 1991

Medicine Cord, David Sparenberg

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I grasp in my hands today the tail feather of a hawk


Sonnet From A Dark Tower, Gwenyth E. Hood Mar 1991

Sonnet From A Dark Tower, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

I dreamed a dream of dancing silver water that called a distant kingdom to my mind


Passage In The Night, Brian Mason Mar 1991

Passage In The Night, Brian Mason

The Mythic Circle

The fire had gone out and I was unable to get it started again. I had been a Boy Scout and all that, but without dry kindling I could not get more than a few flickers of flame.


Merlin's Winter / Eurydice In The Real World / Walking On Water, Clelie Rich Mar 1991

Merlin's Winter / Eurydice In The Real World / Walking On Water, Clelie Rich

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Merlin's Winter: Your season is over now. The Lady of the Lake has closed her villas for the winter Eurydice In The Real World: Orpheus crept unseen into his afterlife through the early dark Walking On Water: Sunset bleeds across the sky, stains my fingers saffron and peaches.


A Special Bus, Charles Rampp Mar 1991

A Special Bus, Charles Rampp

The Mythic Circle

Winter was dragging along its weary way toward spring, which seemed far in an indefinite future.


Enforced Adaptation, V. W. Massie Mar 1991

Enforced Adaptation, V. W. Massie

The Mythic Circle

Coryann Sayre woke to blessed silence. Then she remembered; there was cotton in her ears.


The Rune Master, Conda V. Douglas Mar 1991

The Rune Master, Conda V. Douglas

The Mythic Circle

Emerad stood upon the tower, watch­ing the far-off wisps of smoke from the battlefield.


Sun-Time, Suzanne Burgoyne Dieckman Mar 1991

Sun-Time, Suzanne Burgoyne Dieckman

The Mythic Circle

Mryeshta sat on the riverback, watching skyrr birds skim over the water in little leafy boats. The sun sat high in the sky.


Cat's Paw, Amy Wolf Mar 1991

Cat's Paw, Amy Wolf

The Mythic Circle

The frozen expanse of Balion Wood was silent, save for deerskin boots crunch­ing against snow.


The Theft Of The Sun, Douglas A. Rossman Mar 1991

The Theft Of The Sun, Douglas A. Rossman

The Mythic Circle

It is told that when the great skald Dag Ormseeker was but a mere lad, his mother, the swan-maiden Hervor, sent him off to live with her brother, Ragnar Rune-Wise, the fatherless boy having reached an age when he required the kind of training that only a man could provide.


The Light That Was Lorainne, Dan O'Keefe Mar 1991

The Light That Was Lorainne, Dan O'Keefe

The Mythic Circle

One second, I sat alone in my bedroom, in my wheelchair. I stared out the only window at a neighbor across the street mowing her lawn.


Mythic Circle #11, Tina Cooper, Christine Lowentrout Mar 1991

Mythic Circle #11, Tina Cooper, Christine Lowentrout

The Mythic Circle

Welcome to The Mythic Circle #11. This issue offers some variations on a theme of Winter-into-Spring, particularly Doug Rossman’s notable "The Theft of the Sun"; let us know if you enjoy the seasonal parallelism. You’ll also notice that we continue to run a lot of poetry, including a series of poems by Dirk Verhulst which delicately probe the terror in everyday life, and a wryly lyrical series by Clelie Rich.


Now And Then / Wind, Maybe / Once Upon, Walter Kuchinsky Mar 1991

Now And Then / Wind, Maybe / Once Upon, Walter Kuchinsky

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Now and Then: Birds, there in the air and fish, there in the sea then, as now, as then are really one for me Wind, Maybe: Didn’t hear anything, last night Once Upon: ONCE UPON a late night, easy chair, living room, Pheasant Glen


Only Half A Moon Outside, Zan Agzigian Mar 1991

Only Half A Moon Outside, Zan Agzigian

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he mumbled low, hidden in past footsteps, beaming through the tom branches needling his head