Dear Reader, the following is a re-telling of the story of Babel. I quote the original story from the Bible (King James” Bible, quotes in italics), but, though I do not mean any disrespect, I do treat it as a literary source and not as a holy text. It is said that in the beginning […]

“Thou didst love the brilliant Allalu bird But thou didst smite him and break his wing; He stands in the woods and cries “O my wing”.” (Gilgamesh to Ishtar)   Since then, I hear them all. The flutter of frightened wings in the trills of flute and zither. (my own wings, though nonexistent, shiver in […]