#malazans

[jessichistic]

7 Book Covers in 7 Days Challenge! Rules: Each day, I will post a book cover of a book that I love and nominate someone new to start the challenge. No explanation, no discussion, just post the cover and by doing so spread some literary love!

Day 4! Originally tagged by @mcalhen (who may be getting tired of being tagged in these) and now tagging @celesticidal because this is why we scream at each other so….

[celesticidal]

my fill of answers

"On this grey day, in a valley deep in stone Where like shades from the dead yard Sorrows come forth in milling shrouds And but a few leaves grey as moths cling to branches on the shouldered hillsides, Fluttering to the winds borne on night’s passing I knelt alone and made voice awaken to call upon my god Waiting in the echoes as the day struggled Until in fading the silence found form For my fingers to brush light as dust And the crows flapped down into the trees To study a man on his knees with glittering regard Reminding me of the stars that moments before Held forth watchful as sentinels On the sky’s wall now withdrawn behind my eyes And all the words I have given in earnest All the felt anguish and torrid will so sternly Set out like soldiers in furrowed rows Hovered in a season’s sundering of birds With no song to beckon them into flight Where my hands now spreading like wings Bloodied in the passion of prayer Lay dying in the bowl of my lap My god has no words for me on this grey day Pallor and pallid dust serve a less imagined reply Mute as the leaves in the absence of bestir And even the sky has forgotten the sun Give me the weal of silence to worry answers From this tease of indifference – no matter I am done with prayers on the lip of dawn And the sorrows will fade with light"―Fisher kel Tath

from The Crippled God (Malazan Book of the Fallen), by Steven Erikson

[tumbleswithdamon]

My heart breaks when I think of the bridgeburners :( this series is the best I've ever read! I never get sick of reading it!