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TAKE-OFFs Part 1/2

(The ones that are lists of things were found on the internet. I made the rest)



TO 000

TO 001

TO 002

...

(I wasn't in the war directly,
but imagined it from afar as my friends told me about it,
long before I was drafted to serve in Hawaii—
my experiences there to follow in this blog someday.)


RECOLLECTIONS OF WAR


A fading eagle flew frozen in fear
past deserted flowers in desperate land,
And a rising earth halted for a hasty madness
as time awaited a dead sun.

Remember now the beginning, one fine

...

Last Knight's Almanac (7)

Western Gaul

Alexis lands on the shores of Western Gaul as its Regent Queen along with the exiled Franks. In these lands devastated by plague and conquest, the weighty cries of "bring out the dead" by the pusher of the body wagon are at last put behind as hope and life return to Gaul.

Upon seeing their Queen and their returning armies, the resident Franks rise as one against their Goth ...

Last Knight's Almanac (6)

Makin' Love On a Mid-Summer Night

This time, dear reader, we do not leave our lovers alone, and you frustrated, for sensuous love is as natural and necessary to human life as breathing, and just about as common.

At a comfortable distance from the fire Percivale sheds his downy vest, for the heat grows warmer, and uses it as a pillow when he lies on a blanket covering the finely sifted sands ...

Last Knight's Almanac (5)

Two Kings, a Holyman, and an Oracle

As they ride inland through rolling green hills, their path is soon blocked by a gathering in a meadow which overflows onto the road. They observe a man addressing the crowd, and, growing curious, sit down to listen and soon ask about him. He is a great Holyman, called Patrick, another crack in the armor of the Dark Age. He speaks of goodness and charity among men, of its rewards ...