Lesser Figures of the Greater Trumps

Author’s Note ^{(from Gravity Wells short story collection)}

“Lesser Figures of the Greater Trumps”: This is what one calls a prose poem… or at least what I call a prose poem, for lack of a better name. At the time I wrote it, I could be pretty confident most readers would be familiar with the Rider-Waite tarot deck. I don’t know if that’s true anymore. The world seems to have acquired a disdain for such things; and not for healthy reasons like sincere rationalism, but simply because disdain comes so easily. Pity.