seajules: (seajules sand)
seajules ([personal profile] seajules) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2007-12-05 06:27 am (UTC)

Happy Hanukkah!

Your constructed inarticulate audience sounds rather like least favorite sister, though at least she can spell and punctuate correctly. She does not take it well when my response to her attempts to dictate what I write is, "You are not my intended audience." At least I don't have to say it to my father anymore.

I know one language, the boiled-down essence of the ones my most recent ancestors spoke, or the corrupted mishmash of same, depending on who you ask. I figure, family was speaking the doom of heroes and the end of gods, the loss of Faerie and old country and way of life, was singing fish into nets and schooners across prairies and angels down from the heavens to point west. They handed me this tangled wood bordered by boiling seas, thrust through with mountains. I don't know if I'm cutting at the root or hanging on a branch, but I speak it in this tongue, my tongue. I can make the sounds that waves make and say bramble, thorn, pomegranate. I can read a compass. There is a berg in my maiden name, raven, wolf, rune in the one I wear now. They serve.

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