All of you Ghouls and fiends, oh I mean myspace friends:
Don't forget to set your clocks forward this weekend as it's the start of daylight savings time this Sunday morning, March 8, at 2:00 AM. Thinking about daylight gave me cause to write a bit of prose that I want to share with you from the book. It's about the start of a new day and I hope it helps jump start your daylight savings time week.


A new day before the shattered dawn

By morning be astir preparing defense fore the harvest of night
Your mind quickening to the eros of a new day
Eyes seduced by a comely mistress brother bid your horses stay
For twilight cometh and your due it must be paid

Make this the morning of innocent beginning
Warriors mighty gather charms and talisman that do battle fear
For come the eve brave men die and wounded will lay near
while only those truth be known and spirit ready slip clear
of the sticky web tangled in blood clotted with the retched
power of that undead thing familiar in its hauntings in man's mind blotted
Eris reins from a fortress built of black nights of sprits strangled and rotted

Beg the tides take you make sail retreat from her lands
No pure vessel dare enter her shore every sailor be a stranger
no pure heart welcomes the sting of her icy hands
Silence ascends and fear never ends from the grace of perfect danger

Mind racing beyond imagination
wildly grasping at the wheel of redemption

Until the veil of the unknown yields
And the morning of familiar begins
both believer and non pray forgiveness for past sins

Eris the dark deity her beauty beguiles
from mankind she takes her wiles
To Eris birth is a battle ground made red
a field of her tortured children now dead

Pity the souls plucked like feathers from a brilliant swan
a biter surprise to the hungry eye the light of a shattered dawn
like a foul with torn wings the countenance of morning's dim sun
struggling on the horizon to defy the female nemesis
lungs draw a struggling breath this new day fore warned tonight belongs to Eris


Fred Wilder, March 2009