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Bull · Poppy · Star
THEY DANCED GARLANDED IN POPPY, CLEMATIS, THE SPIRED ASPHODEL. THEY DANCED THE DARK PATH, THE SPIRALED WAY TO THE BLACK CENTER. AT THE BUCRANIUM THEY CAME HOME TO LOSS AND TO DESIRE. IN POPPY SMOKE, A DERVISH, SHE SPOKE THE MOON’S FAR SIDE, AND ALL THE HOLLOWS BEING BORN. HE DANCED IN THE DARKNESS TOO. HIS MASK WAS THE BULL’S MASK, AND ONLY A CLOTH AROUND HIS HEAVY SEX. HIS DARK ARMS WERE OCHRE-PAINTED: OF LABRYS, V, MEANDER. HIS HORNS GRAZED THE CEILING. HIS EYES THROUGH THE MASK BURNED HER. EVEN THE MISTRESS OF THE LABYRINTH COULD NOT RESIST THAT LOOK.
BULL · POPPY · STAR is the urgent, passionate lament of Ariadne, to her lover. It is a poem and a song and a prayer to wildness, to passion itself and to longing and love. Sylvia V. Linsteadt's prose will be known to many of our readers through the astonishing epic that is Tatterdemalion and the cult-status collection of short stories, Our Lady of the Dark Country.
BULL · POPPY · STAR is part of the Seven Doors in an Unyielding Stone series.
BULL · POPPY · STAR is the urgent, passionate lament of Ariadne, to her lover. It is a poem and a song and a prayer to wildness, to passion itself and to longing and love. Sylvia V. Linsteadt's prose will be known to many of our readers through the astonishing epic that is Tatterdemalion and the cult-status collection of short stories, Our Lady of the Dark Country.
BULL · POPPY · STAR is part of the Seven Doors in an Unyielding Stone series.
36 pages, Paperback
Published October 31, 2018
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About the author
Sylvia Linsteadt
12 books98 followersSylvia Victor Linsteadt is a writer, artist, and certified animal tracker. Her work—both fiction and non-fiction—is rooted in myth, ecology, feminism & bioregionalism, and is devoted to broadening our human stories to include the voices of the living land.
Her published fiction includes the middle grade children’s duology The Stargold Chronicles—The Wild Folk (Usborne, June 2018) and The Wild Folk Rising (Usborne, May 2019)— Our Lady of the Dark Country, a collection of short stories (January 2018) and Tatterdemalion (Unbound, Spring 2017); her works of nonfiction include The Wonderments of the East Bay (Heyday 2014), and Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area (Heyday, Spring 2017). Her short fiction has been published in New California Writing 2013, Dark Mountain, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Golden Key and Deathless Press. She has a regular column with Earthlines Magazine, and her creative nonfiction can also be found in Poecology, Dark Mountain, and News from Native California. For three years (from 2013 to 2016) Sylvia ran a stories-in-the-mail business called Wild Talewort, in which she sent out rewilded tellings of fairytales and myths to the physical-post boxes of hundreds of subscribers around the world.
Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area won the Northern California Book Award in General Nonfiction in 2018.
The short story “The Midwife of Temescal” won the James D. Phelan Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation in Fall 2014. She has an Honors B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University.
She is represented by Jessica Woollard at David Higham Associates, 7th Floor, Waverley House, 7-12 Noel Street, London W1F 8GQ
Her published fiction includes the middle grade children’s duology The Stargold Chronicles—The Wild Folk (Usborne, June 2018) and The Wild Folk Rising (Usborne, May 2019)— Our Lady of the Dark Country, a collection of short stories (January 2018) and Tatterdemalion (Unbound, Spring 2017); her works of nonfiction include The Wonderments of the East Bay (Heyday 2014), and Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area (Heyday, Spring 2017). Her short fiction has been published in New California Writing 2013, Dark Mountain, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Golden Key and Deathless Press. She has a regular column with Earthlines Magazine, and her creative nonfiction can also be found in Poecology, Dark Mountain, and News from Native California. For three years (from 2013 to 2016) Sylvia ran a stories-in-the-mail business called Wild Talewort, in which she sent out rewilded tellings of fairytales and myths to the physical-post boxes of hundreds of subscribers around the world.
Lost Worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area won the Northern California Book Award in General Nonfiction in 2018.
The short story “The Midwife of Temescal” won the James D. Phelan Literary Award from the San Francisco Foundation in Fall 2014. She has an Honors B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University.
She is represented by Jessica Woollard at David Higham Associates, 7th Floor, Waverley House, 7-12 Noel Street, London W1F 8GQ
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March 12, 2020
The story of Ariadne and the Minotaur reimagined and very sexy!!
August 19, 2021
Heat in my body
rose, flickered crimson & chalk
powder alit— boom.
This little lovely thing I read in a delirium, fading into nest-swinging unconsciousness in a hammock strung between two pines. I awoke to my lover beside me, rubbing my feet. His broad carpenter’s hands lifted the tiny book from the chair beside me & began to read aloud to my returning-to-consciousness self. I oohed & ahhed & mmmhmmmed as the story came to life again, a mythical mirror of our relationship.
What a gift to share between two lovers.
Haiku by me.
rose, flickered crimson & chalk
powder alit— boom.
This little lovely thing I read in a delirium, fading into nest-swinging unconsciousness in a hammock strung between two pines. I awoke to my lover beside me, rubbing my feet. His broad carpenter’s hands lifted the tiny book from the chair beside me & began to read aloud to my returning-to-consciousness self. I oohed & ahhed & mmmhmmmed as the story came to life again, a mythical mirror of our relationship.
What a gift to share between two lovers.
Haiku by me.
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