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Stonework is published by Houghton College, a Christian liberal arts college located in New York’s rural Genesee Valley. Stonework seeks a diverse mix of mature and emerging voices in fellowship with the evangelical tradition. Published twice a year, the journal reflects the arts community at Houghton College where excellence in music, writing, and the visual arts has long been a distinctive.

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    Poetry by Julia Kasdorf, Robert Siegel and Sandra Duguid. Fiction by Tom Noyes. The portraits of Alieen Ortlip Shea. An anthology of Australian Poets
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    Thom Satterlee - Poems from Burning Wycliff with an appreciation by David Perkins. Alison Gresik - new fiction and an interview. James Zoller - Poems from Living on the Floodplain.
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    Luci Shaw — new poems with an appreciation by Eugene H. Peterson & Hugh Cook — new fiction and an interview

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Ostrich and Man

They say that long ago man was swift like ostriches are today. One day an ostrich came to a human and said, “Maanygoon. I want to go on a long trip. Now I want you to help me. Give me your legs for the trip. I will return them to you day after tomorrow.”
The man agreed to this matter. He truly gave the ostrich his legs to be brought back the day after tomorrow as he had promised earlier.
At this point the ostrich disappeared. The man waited on and on for a long time. Finally, he gave up hope that they would ever be returned.
The Murle say this is why the ostrich is swift up until now.

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Reprinted with permission of the translator, Jonathan E. Arensen from Mice Are Men (International Museum of Cultures, 1992) copyright by The summer Insstitute of Linguistics, Inc., 1992

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