Nice, Volic!
Uh, Zephyr, you need a much better avatar.
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Last Gods
by Galway Kinnell
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Last Gods
by Galway Kinnell
Spoiler
She sits naked on a rock
a few yards out in the water.
He stands on the shore,
also naked, picking blueberries.
She calls. He turns. She opens
her legs showing him her great beauty,
and smiles, a bow of lips
seeming to tie together
the ends of the earth.
Splashing her image
to pieces, he wades out
and stands before her, sunk
to the anklebones in leaf-mush
and bottom-slime--the intimacy
of the visible world. He puts
a berry in its shirt
of mist into her mouth.
She swallows it. Over the lake
two swallows whim, juke, jink,
and when one snatches
an insect they both whirl up
and exult. He is swollen
not with ichor but with blood.
She takes him and sucks him
more swollen. He kneels, opens
the dark, vertical smile
linking heaven with the underneath
and licks her smoothest flesh more smooth.
On top of the rock they join.
Somewhere a frog moans, a crow screams.
The hair of their bodies
startles up. They cry
in the tongue of the last gods,
who refused to go,
chose death, and shuddered
in joy and shattered in pieces,
bequeathing their cries
into the human mouth. Now in the lake
two faces float, looking up
at a great maternal pine whose branches
open out in all directions
explaining everything.
a few yards out in the water.
He stands on the shore,
also naked, picking blueberries.
She calls. He turns. She opens
her legs showing him her great beauty,
and smiles, a bow of lips
seeming to tie together
the ends of the earth.
Splashing her image
to pieces, he wades out
and stands before her, sunk
to the anklebones in leaf-mush
and bottom-slime--the intimacy
of the visible world. He puts
a berry in its shirt
of mist into her mouth.
She swallows it. Over the lake
two swallows whim, juke, jink,
and when one snatches
an insect they both whirl up
and exult. He is swollen
not with ichor but with blood.
She takes him and sucks him
more swollen. He kneels, opens
the dark, vertical smile
linking heaven with the underneath
and licks her smoothest flesh more smooth.
On top of the rock they join.
Somewhere a frog moans, a crow screams.
The hair of their bodies
startles up. They cry
in the tongue of the last gods,
who refused to go,
chose death, and shuddered
in joy and shattered in pieces,
bequeathing their cries
into the human mouth. Now in the lake
two faces float, looking up
at a great maternal pine whose branches
open out in all directions
explaining everything.
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Hmm...soon to be brother.dlbpharmd wrote:Name (and titles) - Volic
Court - Sunrise
Major Domain - Time
Holy symbol
Dogma - Spanning the world and the many dimensions, I am the sole constant of the cosmos. I witnessed the heat and violence of the first moment of Creation, and I alone will observe the fall into cold, dark Entropy. I am unyielding and unfathomable. The young I make old, and the old I make dust to become young again.
It looks like already you attempt to push my buttons.
At least you chose the correct Court, even if your other allegiances are, how should I say this, questionable...
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They haven't been filled yet because I'm waiting for the last turn of P2 and the final boon... if all goes well, there'll be a lot more races in P3 to choose from.Murrin wrote:The races are on this thread, but the section hasn't been filled yet.
Oh, and yes, you can comment in the Rules and Comments thread for P3 now
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...definitely moving to 3.0 rules and comments thread...Xar wrote:They haven't been filled yet because I'm waiting for the last turn of P2 and the final boon... if all goes well, there'll be a lot more races in P3 to choose from.Murrin wrote:The races are on this thread, but the section hasn't been filled yet.
They haven't been filled yet because I'm waiting for the last turn of P2 and the final boon... if all goes well, there'll be a lot more races in P3 to choose from.Murrin wrote:The races are on this thread, but the section hasn't been filled yet.
Oh, and yes, you can comment in the Rules and Comments thread for P3 now
Is Vrees still playing?Xar wrote:Allright, thus far I have:
Aarklar
an Carraig
Anaya
Bel
Brid
Calais
Devaguhya
Etzicoatl
O-gon-cho
Tawhiri-Matea
Telmag Ganoras
The Aesthete Prince
The Void
uKulwa
Zephyr
<unnamed Queeaqueg god>
<unnamed Argothoth god>
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Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.
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