So much as gladness that some end might be.īrowning, in turn, spun off his poem from Shakespeare’s King Lear, so maybe all literature just builds on other works, like bricks upon bricks. Into that ominous tract which, all agree, Would break, what crutch ’gin write my epitaph What, save to waylay with his lies, ensnareĪll travellers who might find him posted there,Īnd ask the road? I guess’d what skull-like laugh What else should he be set for, with his staff? Here are two of the 34 verses (italics are mine): It’s from the poem “ Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” by Robert Browning.
From the top, they provide a view that makes you feel commanding and godlike.īy now, you’re wondering where that title, Hides the Dark Tower, comes from. Viewed from the ground, they’re mysterious and imposing. They represent man’s attempt to reach the heavens. The anthology features stories involving towers. They’ve selected a stunning piece of artwork for the cover, don’t you think? Harmon and Vonnie Winslow Crist, have been great to work with. It’s a new publisher, Pole-to-Pole Publishing, and I think this is their first anthology. My short story, “Ancient Spin,” will appear in the anthology Hides the Dark Tower, scheduled to appear in October.
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