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These essays are chapter by chapter releases from my the writing of my latest book, Postcards of the Night Sky Sent to Shepherds.
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This provides the framework for how to utilize this section to read the weekly updates to my latest book, Postcards of the Night Sky send to Shepherds!
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Daniel Firth Griffith
Postcard #10, The Birth of Cain
"'Look, see! I have created man, like God,' she declared and the second world began."
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Postcard #9, She Asks for Your Tears, Not Your Toiling.
"The soil may save us but sometimes I wonder if she wants to. It is time we actually meet her, where she lives, on our knees."
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Postcard #8, Death or Life or Maybe We Missed It Entirely
"There once was a calf that watched the dawn die. There once was a coyote that the calf's life did source supply. Time passed here and by and now there…
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Postcard #7, The River’s Pall & Autumn’s gods.
"What will they serve? Summer, of course—her blood in amber and pain plated horns and her yellow-orange hued corpse over antimony and copper."
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Daniel Firth Griffith
Postcard #6, Crinkle & Crackle
"Ebullient flowers become golden crypts and their hollowed trunks become hallowed homes for next year’s pollinators—new life is coming, but not yet."
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Postcard #5, Skyborne Magicians
"Today, their moss gilded and ivy veiled uneven undulations are like aged and tired, but proud, men whose spines slump ever so slightly downward…
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