Salon Fantastique by Ellen Datlow

Author:Ellen Datlow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2022-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Down the Wall

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STILT-LEGS SCISSORING, SNIP-SNAP! the bird gods dance. Old craneycrows, a skulk of powers. How they strut and ogle with their long eyes, knowing. How they serpentine their necks. And stalking, how they flirt their tails, insouciant as Groucho. Fugue and counterfugue, the music jigs and sneaks. On tiptoe, solemnly, they hop and flap; they whirl and whet their long curved clever bills. A sly dance, a wry dance, miching mallecho. Pavane. They peacock, but their drab is eyeless, black as mourners, black as mutes. They are clownish, they are sinister, in their insatiable invention, their unending. Like the frieze in a Pharaoh’s nursery, like the knotwork in a chthonic gospel. In and out, untiring as wire, they weave a thorny hedge of selves, and in their eddering, enlace their eggs, their moonish precious eggs. They gloat. And they go on. Like viruses, mere self-engendering more self, they replicate. They tangle genesis in their inexorable braid.

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