Epigram: Peace

Posted on September 11, 2008 by JE

Beneath the bloody sky,
upon his mountain throne,
the Stalker waits for wolf-days
and his hands-of-fire bide their time.

About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.
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4 Responses to Epigram: Peace

  1. newguydave says:
    September 11, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    Art thou a poet at heart?

    • JE says:
      September 11, 2008 at 5:05 pm

      Used to be. Then I sold the heart for drinking money, and things started to go a little more smoothly.

      • Anonymous says:
        September 12, 2008 at 6:50 pm

        If you put together a collection someday, slip a poem or two into it and use a line from one as the title for the book. At the least, I’d pull Beneath the Bloody Sky or Hands-of-Fire Bide Their Time off the shelf, and if you then hit me with a 80K words of Morlock, I wouldn’t mind at all. Worked for KEW.

        –Jeff Stehman

        • JE says:
          September 13, 2008 at 5:33 pm

          Thanks–that’s worth thinking about. I don’t write a lot of verse these days: I actually wrote this epigram when I was a teenager (so fire was a relatively recent invention). But I must have a few of these in my notebooks. Maybe I can attribute them to some crazy Khroic seer.

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