diff --git a/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/002.html b/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/002.html index 022f131..30272f8 100644 --- a/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/002.html +++ b/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/002.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ weight: 2
I was born at the edge of the numinous. -That is why I can to tread along the border. +That is why I can tread along the border. That is why I'm able to whisper the name of God. That is why I'm allowed to know the number and how to factor it. That is why I have seven fingers spread wide and three curled toward my heart. @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ That is why my limbs trace the curves and lines of power when I dance. That is why I sit with my back to the sun in summer. That is why my body is a canvas. -You were born in the sunlight. +You were born in sunlight. Speak secrets into my hair. Take my words from me. diff --git a/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/003.md b/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/003.md index db0fd5b..275385c 100644 --- a/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/003.md +++ b/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/003.md @@ -3,4 +3,18 @@ date: 2019-12-25 weight: 3 --- -At the beginning of time, when chaos birthed to order and disorder, we were blessed with two souls. One has seven eyes and can see all of the monsters in the dark, but is blinded by the sun. The other has no eyes, but can feel no pain. When order and disorder were close as children, our souls experienced the world hand in hand, but as they drifted apart and began to fight, some of us left one of our souls behind, and that is why we search. +
At the beginning of time,
+    when chaos birthed to order and disorder,
+we were blessed with two souls.
+
+One has seven eyes and can see all of the monsters in the dark,
+    but is blinded by the sun.
+
+The other has no eyes,
+    but can feel no pain.
+
+When order and disorder were close as children,
+  our souls experienced the world hand in hand,
+    but as they drifted apart and began to fight,
+      some of us left one of our souls behind,
+        and that is why we search.
diff --git a/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/004.md b/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/004.md index c349737..aeabdac 100644 --- a/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/004.md +++ b/content/poet-and-mystic/overflowing/with/words/004.md @@ -3,4 +3,13 @@ date: 2019-12-25 weight: 4 --- -Babel was a collaborative effort. Once, we all spoke the same language, but on seeing god grow increasingly anxious with the rate of our progress, we agreed to let our tongues be confused, so that he could take things at a more comfortable pace, and we could be assured he would not understand us unless we prayed in silence, for only then do we speak the language of angels. +
Babel was a collaborative effort.
+
+Once,
+we all spoke the same language,
+  but on seeing god grow increasingly anxious with the rate of our progress,
+    we agreed to let our tongues be confused,
+      so that he could take things at a more comfortable pace,
+        and we could be assured he would not understand us unless we prayed in silence,
+
+for only then do we speak the language of angels.