Time and the Tapestry by John Plotz

Author:John Plotz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing Inc
Published: 2014-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Goliath’s Head

Ed and I were quiet as Mead pushed us high above London, west along

the Thames under a leaden sky. I tried to ignore the hole that had opened up in the feathers along Mead’s neck, and the occasional lurch or jolt as he struggled to stay straight. It struck me suddenly that while Morris was as chubby-cheeked and happy as ever, Mead was showing the years. Somehow a price was being paid for every jump we made—and it wasn’t hard to guess who was paying it.

How long could Mead hold out with us on his back? And if he couldn’t? If the next time we went to take off he simply couldn’t manage it, what then? I unwrapped a granola bar from my bag (only two more) and slipped it down to Mead. I caught a gleam of a smile in his eye as he snapped it neatly into his beak—but only a gleam.

“Ed.” I tried for a low, calm voice. “Can we go through the poem again, try to see where we stand?” Without a word he handed me the notebook, already turned to the right page.

I started by reading the first part of the poem out loud, reassuring myself about what we’d already managed to do:

I am the ancient Apple-Queen,

For evermore a hope unseen,

Betwixt the blossom and the bough.

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