Keith Fahey is most unknown for his essay “On Reading with an Equal Eye,” in Leviathan, a Melville journal (May 2011).
Falcon Will Give Birth was conceived in 1968 with the Vision of Apollo. Keith didn’t know he was pregnant. He was surprised when the gravidity lasted years, then decades. Nurturing this new life kept him bound to his Apolline commitment, and fired his will to live—a big deal to the son of a suicide.
If he longed for a happy end-beginning, and found no end-beginning, he was always revived by the joy of daily searching and finding, many finds serendipitous. He finds people he’s glad to know about, even if he merely hints their stories. They are a part of his world, and he can’t leave them out. It’s hoped that Readers will do their own searching and finding.
And who knows: Maybe you’ll find your own story among the hints within.
