On Eyrie they do not kill birds but worship them instead, for while their own children never return from beyond the horizon, the birds can come and go as they please. If we ask them kindly on their return, they say, perhaps they will speak of our sons and daughters, our mothers, our friends.
The Islands of The World – Introduction
Ache – Allegory – Bay – Beauty – Blue – Boundary – Brilliance – Cage – Calamity – Certainty – Chalk – Change – The City Of Red Houses – Constellation – Cork – Delusion – Denial – Depth – Drowned – Earth – Easy – Erstwhile – Essex – Eyrie – Familiar – Far – Fireflies – Forest – Ghost – Golgotha – Guilt – Hope – Hotel – Impermanence – Infinity – Inspiration – Intervention – Ix – Jorel’s Island – Knowledge – The Light Of The Sun – The Lighthouse – Lure – Mars – Masque – Mist – Myth – Nest – North – Obscurity – Passage – Past – Poetry – Promise – Quiet – The Reflection of The Moon – Ritual – Roan – Rock – Rule – Salt – Self – Shatter – Shell – Silence – Silky – Siren – Soon – Sorrow – Speech – Story – Suffering – Target – Thicket – Thirst – The Thorns – Torpor – Tower – Unknown – Viy – Vurt – Walk – Wall – Web – Whisper – Wilderness – Wonder – X – Youth – Zaratan – Zeal