Introduction

Introduction

Welcome, my dear reader!

Welcome to the trove

of weeping trees and jagged seas

and ancient, mossy cove.

Lose yourself, dear reader,

in the printed pages

of thrashing words and chiming birds,

threaded through the ages.

Come in, come in, dear reader!

Leave this world for another,

where feelings flail and whimsies sail

‘cross depthless lakes of colour.

Watch their tears, dear reader,

down like walls are tumbling.

See through their lies and touch their skies,

and read their fancies fumbling.