Poetry. Izanami and Izanagi stroll through Oriental landscapes and narrate parables in the mode of Zen-master stories. Nikuko, one of Sondheim's avatars, plays a role here too. Sondheim is well known as the comoderator of Wryting, once the Fiction-of-philosophy, and of the Cybermind mailing lists. He is responsible for the Trace Writing Project, an Internet community. He lives in Brooklyn.