Audiobook excerpts
1/ Introducing my epic poem.
“Introduction. Elijah’s life… in a chariot of fire.”
(00:06, from Introduction)
2/ Calling on muses for inspiration.
“He called down fire,… whispered instead.”
(00:35, from Invocation)
3/ We discover Elijah in the desert, praying for death.
“Beneath the Juniper… unto an angel’s touch.”
(00:54, from Book I)
4/ Elijah’s first sighting of the lovely maiden, Adina.
“The Lord instructed me … as if in duet with the stream.”
(01:52, from Book I)
5/ Adina leads Elijah into the woods!
“Deeper in we walked… suggesting invitation.”
(02:36, from Book I)
6/ Elijah prays over a corpse.
“I put the boy… Nay what have I to do with thee!”
(04:01, from Book II)
7/ Elijah’s shamanic journey.
“The shaded parts… here, they call me Merlin.”
(05:11, from Book IV)
8/ Elijah readies for battle with the false prophets of Baal!
“On the adjacent slope… The god who sends down fire, is God!”
(06:20, from Book V)
9/ Heaven mobilizes when Elijah prays!
“Thy cry as incense burned… chanted their war cries.”
(09:48, from Book V)
10/ The angel reascends to Heaven.
” ‘Elijah, that thou mayst … which one with him becomes.”
(10:21, from Book VI)
11/ Adina returns!
“Now as Elijah’s convulsions subside… she down his body slides.”
(11:43, from Book VII)
12/ Elijah encounters the Lord on Mount Sinai!
“The water still again,… I am about to pass by.’ “
(12:44, from Book VII)
13/ Jezebel’s bedroom manipulations.
“The queen draws closer now… I never could resist you, Jezebel.’ “
(13:30, from Book VIII)
14/ Jezebel plies her seductive arts on a soldier.
“The ailing king… To have the queen and monarchy entire.”
(13:59, from Book XI)
15/ Fifty soldiers versus one prophet!
“Their way now steep… But death descends ere one is fled.”
(16:08, from Book XI)
16/ Sonnet celebrating the love of Elijah’s life.
“There’s a recurrent theme… through the eyes’ awakened light.”
(17:34, from Book XI)