Libra 5. A flagpole with no flag. It wasn’t just a pole stuck in the ground, but a shaft inviting the imagination of flags. Everyone who looked at it saw…
read moreLibra 4. By accident, a man finds an invisible tower. Glad he’d been walking so slowly, admiring the vista, for he ran into it, bumping his forehead. He felt for…
read moreLibra 3. A painting upside-down in a museum. No one notices the mistake. (This actually happened. It was at the Chicago Art Institute. The painter is Edwin Dickinson The name…
read moreLibra 2. A vast tract of windmills. The windmills tall and white, each with three arms, thousands of windmills and thousands of arms, each one resisting and slowing the wind…
read moreLibra 1. An apothecary shop in which herbal concoctions and other medicines appear as needed. An alchemist invented an apothecary shop which mirrored completely the realm of disease. Anyone who…
read moreVirgo 30. A man catching a ripe fruit as it falls off a tree. From the sky food entered his hand. He sat under the tree, in Paradise, thinking that…
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