The Patriarchs' Stained Glass

A world where poetry is magic. The wind. A world where words rule, armed with rhythm and rhyme. The poet’s craft becomes a wizard’s craft, and a stranger who enters this world becomes a great magician simply because he remembers many lines of poetry written by other people.

The patriarchs lay words into stained-glass windows, and then the Black Wind arrives. And a mute vagrant speaks—in the way he knows how.