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The Truth of the Stranger by John Shea Magi only journey by night like guarded secrets of dreams and, at morning, always arrive from the East, the rising sun at their backs, haloing them in light. You will have to shade your eyes to watch them, step by step, approach you with their request. They are not wise in usual ways. They cannot make a chair, their soups are regrettable. It is conjunctions, symmetries, balances that interest them. Heaven shakes, earth quakes. As above, so below. A star moves across the sky and they are in the saddle convinced an earth child has yanked a string. They come from a country of kites. They also puzzle prophecies, living in perpetual pregnancy, awaiting the births of the predicted. They unroll ancient parchments to find new babies, then read the wrinkles of the newborn as testimonies of the past promises. They are not your average observers. That is why they have come to you why they have come to us all. Your replacement has been born. They need your help to tell them where they can find the child. Lost in higher logic they will not see you blanch or notice you are troubled. They want to teach you the lost art of homage, how freeing it is to be prostrate before promise. They are strangers who have come to tell you the truth you have forgotten. Do not try to trick them, coaxing from their enthusiasm murderous information. It will not work. Wise Men always go home by another route. You will end by slaughtering hope and you will not see the fleeing child, your child, reach for their gifts. "The Truth of the Stranger" is reprinted by permission from John Shea, author of Starlight. To Preview.
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