The Tarot
Key art
Synopsis
Starry dark, a pale planet, mountains under it. The face is cracked stone. The eyes are green and doing the only shining that counts. Grey hair, a beard streaked with colour, a crown that quit pretending to be metal: antlers, feathers, glass spheres, crystals.
The cloak is feathers. A reading wants hands. This minute gives you the card as a person who will not be turned over.
Meaning starts and is not completed. The eyes do not help you finish it.
Extended sequence
Marks on the crystals do not become a sentence. A kinder reading would cheat and tell you. The crown keeps its marks private.
Cool light everywhere except the eyes. The planet stays pale. Nothing rises to explain him.
Figures in the frame
Masculine in the jaw and the beard, and then the crown spends that on animals that are not alive. Antler, feather, glass.
Face-up is the cruel part. He is the card. You still do not get the booklet.
Codex fragment
The glass iris with the rose is an eye and no person. This is an eye that grew a beard, and the glass has been reduced to beads in the hair.
A card you cannot finish is a face that refuses your system. He is good at the refusal.
Sound of Imagination
Wind at a height. Feathers. A faint glass note the spheres never quite make. Sound of Imagination.
No dealer speaks. The minute declines the voice that would name what you drew.
The Craft
Still: green eyes in a cracked face. Motion: none, which is what a card does. Residual: a pale planet and a crown you cannot read. The Craft.
The lay does not happen. The face stays up. The meaning stays yours to get wrong.
Showcase
Keep the antler crown, not the planet. Showcase.
Planets are backdrop. The crown is the card's furniture.
Filed
Pocket Cinema · Loose Frames
Cracked stone, green eyes, antlers, feathers, crystals that do not spell a fortune.
Face-up, and unfinished. That is the cruelty.
After the frame
Mark · keep · letter
Released rooms keep a mark from one to five, a keep on this device, and letters that stay with the page after the feed has moved on. The Tarot is ready.
Letters under the frame
The Archivist · held
Filed in the archive. The page does not expire.