Far Off Unhappy Things – Boys and Girls of the Reflective Age Chapter 8: Irrational Scale The spirit of nostalgiaIs passing me byOpium and poisonJasmine and RoseMaze of ambrosiaAll flavours glow – Alphonse de Lamartine Fleur paged through the book. ‘Far Off Unhappy Things #6, Hazeron Dreams.’ It wasn’t very good. In fact, she would go so far as to say that it was quite bad. Still, it intrigued her. This woman- who was sleeping…
Far Off Unhappy Things – Solitary Reaper Chapter seven: Maxwell By Renko Chazakiël Rodenburg O Rose, thou art sick!The invisible wormThat flies in the night,In the howling storm,Has found out thy bedOf crimson joy:And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy. – William Blake The room was empty. Vacant. Not in a literal way. There were a lot of things in the room. It was overwhelmingly uninhabited, almost oppressively so. Not a ‘something’ but a…
Far Off Unhappy Things – Boys and Girls of the Reflective Age Chapter 6: Eleanor By Renko Chazakiël Rodenburg This life before meIts blood runs so stillThe call of the birdThe song that makes the hours go – Oscar Wilde The sea was calm today. An endless expanse of gray beneath an equally gray sky. It was too calm. The waves were wrong, too. In her dreams the sea was gray, but the sky mottled…
Far Off Unhappy Things: Solitary Reaper Chapter 5: Alexis By Renko Chazakiel Rodenburg Sail of Claustra, Aelis, Azalais,As you move among the bright trees;As your voices, under the larches of ParadiseMake a clear sound,Sail of Claustra, Aelis, Azalais,Raimona, Tibors, Berangere,‘Neath the dark gleam of the sky;Under night, the peacock-throated,Bring the saffron-coloured shell,Bring the red gold of the maple,Bring the light of the birch tree in autumnMirals, Cembelins, Audiarda,Remember this fire. – Ezra Pound Servants chanted…
Far Off Unhappy Things: Boys and Girls of the Reflective Age Chapter 4: Idle Days By Renko Chazakiël Rodenburg I see her walking downDown the endless streetA human form of nightA walking beautyI see the shine of her cold, cold eyesEnlightens the darkest souls and the darkest minds – E. E. Cummings Light as bright as the eiderdown pillow was soft awoke Fleur with a jolt. Through wide open windows it poured in like an…
Far Off Unhappy Things: Solitary Reaper Chapter 3: Achyls By Renko Chazakiël Rodenburg and Septimian I. Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. – W. B. Yeats Achlys stirred in her sleep, too aware of the…
Far Off Unhappy Things: Boys and Girls of the Reflective Age Chapter 2: Fleur By Renko Chazakiël Rodenburg Trapped in a prism, in a prism of lightAlone in the darkness, darkness of whiteWe fell in love, alone on a stageIn the reflective age – James Joyce Fleur measured her pills out on her hand one by one. Her unusual physiology meant she had to take a surprising amount before they worked. Five now, five later.…
Far Off Unhappy Things: Solitary ReaperChapter 1: Violet By Renko Chazakiël Rodenburg There is no wrath in the stars,They do not rage in the sky;I look from the evil woodAnd find myself wondering why. – Lord Dunsany She sat alone as she watched the sun set. Slowly it went from bright white to a more agreeable yellow, and then a smouldering red as in the distance it sank into the ocean beyond the world. Then…