webeye

They mocked my low voice, my ugly webeye, my ignorance of the Odes, and my clumsiness in the dance.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

In my webeye I envisioned her pressed against a wall, watching us through a peephole into the tharais room.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I darkened my eyelids with charcoal, as Az had done when she threw the bones for me; I put swallowwort sap in my webeye, as the Dame had taught me.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

In my webeye I saw my heart, the size and shape of a clenched fist.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

In my webeye I saw Cook sorting rushes on the shore, looking for the tender centers of the sheaves to serve at dinner; and there was Na, laughing at the ducks waggling their tails in the air as they dove.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I landed on a tree limb, hunkered down in the leaf shadow, and my webeye saw a panther under a thicket.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I squinted at Phalin with my webeye, and saw her face spangled by lamplight and dappled by leaf shadows, and the shadows were tinged with the color of fear.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

It would not cure my webeye; I was doomed to go blind in that eye, but the swallowwort might help me see visions caught in the web.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I plucked a stem and smeared the yellow sap on my webeye, the better to see what could be seen.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I knew a woman once with webeye in both eyes, her blind irises like milky moonstones.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009