title: Moons, Dreams and Majical Things: Poetry, Prose and Other Ramblings
author: Tonya Busbee
description: Through empathetic eyes, we see beyond the many shades of gray to the essence of humanity. In this collection of poetry, we find words dancing with memories, flooded with passion, cursing with anger, and pulsing with pain. Moons, Dreams and Majical Things is a truly diverse collection. It portrays the life of an artist in a world with no brush. Walking hand in hand, we travel together through lifes ever-winding roads, struggling through this mundane life, losing loved ones along the way, and forging through homophobia; because love came to her in the shape of a woman. The prose and poems within range from the sweet and the funny to those expressing the darker side of the human psyche. We peer inside the looking glass to find a genuine work of art.
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  **A Bait of Dreams**
  
  
  a five-summer quest
  
  
  Jo Clayton
  
  
  1985
  
  
  
  
  
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  Some sections of this book were published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction
  Magazine, in-cluding in slightly different versions those parts entitled A
  _Bait of Dreams, A Thirst for Broken Water, Southwind_ _My Mother,_ and
  _Companioning._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Carefully Gleia untied the knots in the rag and touched the Ranga Eye. The
  warmth spread up through her body and once again she saw the fliers. The male
  spun in ecstatic spirals and the others danced their jubilation. She could
  feel them drawing her out of her body. She wanted to let go. She wanted
  desper-ately to let go, to fly on glorious wings, free and joyous. So easy, it
  would be so easy just to go sailing away from all the pain and misery of her
  life here. Why not? Why not just go, let them take her to fly in joy under a
  butter-yellow sun ....
  
  
  
  
  
  Jo Clayton has also written:
  
  
  _Moongather_
  
  
  _Moonscatter_
  
  