A Fortress

Sleep, friends — stop worrying and sleep.
I’m here to be your refuge, me and my blade and my body.
I am here to shelter you — a fortress made of shadow and stone.
I call this my sword of unsealing, my releasing steel. With these edges, I can cut myself beautifully open and step into the breach. My dreams have been carved slowly out of my dense column of years, and with this sword, I can hew it back into its original, unformed state. When the shadows come…
We left the spire vacant for generations. Nobody entered… nobody even went close enough to see where it met the earth.
But last night, just by chance, we passed close enough to see it above the trees — and there were lights in the windows.
I am wandering again. This may be why I’ve been slow to post sketches, which require a more deliberate momentum to continue drawing and scanning. I am doing my best to bring several preoccupations together into something larger. I am letting my aspiration lead me.
We fight different demons
We carry the light differently
Different tools in our belts
Where should we put our money, eh? We can put it on heads, and charge forward into the bright light. We can put it on tails, and let the wind take us where it wants, which will probably be somewhere that (to its credit) doesn’t know us yet. Or we can stop it in mid-air…
There’s something about this place — timeless, elusive. Every time I leave, I forget that it’s here, and when I come back, I forget about everywhere else. I don’t think it lives in the same space-time as the rest of the world… the boat should have rotted and sunk long ago. The tree is green,…