Song-Surf

At a tavern door, Omar lifts his cup against the thought of death. His companion answers with a harder question: if the Bird of Time is already on the wing, what waits beyond its flight?

Cale Young Rice’s early-twentieth-century collection opens with a long, restless exchange on wine, mortality, faith and the limits of human knowledge. One voice urges the friends to seize the hour; the other cannot quiet the soul’s hunger for an answer. Then the poems turn sharply: Jael speaks of Sisera’s blood, her fear, and the fierce certainty of her deed. Across these charged voices and images, love, nature, belief and loss meet questions no cup—or argument—can easily settle. When the night’s debate is over, what can the soul truly know?

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