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Enjoy this reading of Star of the Time and Turning By Quivalin Soth from More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home edited by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

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Star of the Time and Turning

By Quivalin Soth

The light of that staris centuries old,passing through voidsand vacuums to reach us,and yet to the eyeit is here and now,as a story’s past tensetranslates into imminent dreaming.

As the night sky descends,its influence rising,those of us waitingin darkened countryare floating where memorydoubles as dreamand dream blends with wakinguntil all the tensespast present and futurecollide in mysterious sentences:

One generationgives way to another—so say philosopherscalendars seasonssedimentary rockand the waning eye:but against them stands poetryvision and heartthe wild incandescenceeach of us feelsas the present convergedand renames the pastand promises everythingeven when nothingseems our destination,even when storiesreach an inevitable end. 

One generationgives way to another—a bleak genealogyfashioned of soil and bone,and all of our worlds,both perceived and invented,trail into chroniclediminish to legendin new generationswhen you take wife or husbandwhen the children you scarcely imaginecome to you, bearingthis book or another.

And then, in the fadingrecesses of starlight,in the earliest pagesof this and all stories,you will open the bookwith those mythical children,and in showing them countryyou traveled one lostinexpressible spring,you will find an old skyof stars half-remembered,new lights will appearand old lights transfigured.And providing that all of usDid the task well—Since the first star’s inceptionSince the pen and the compassSince the first of your memoriesAnchored the past to present—All of us thenWill repeople the heavens,What is past what is presentWill align in a prospectOf new constellationsAnd that star, both the sameAnd forever transformersHas been shining is shiningAnd will have been shiningEternally here and now.