2024-01-04

poetry/c/corner-witch.txt

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+CORNER WITCH
+2020-04-06
+
+***
+
+what would you do
+with a magic cloak
+that come three twirls
+would turn you into a bird blue?
+
+I'd escape out my bedroom window
+and let the wind take me where it will
+whether past the horizon or back to my windowsill
+to watch the sky's fiery chariot plunge down low
+
+but there's nowhere far I could go
+no hope of bringing along my things
+with legs like easily-snapped twigs
+that bleed lost promises into the snow
+
+and Pernicious does not as much sway
+as the wind tousling the trees' hair
+to convince me to abandon everything
+and seek her bosom in hopes all will turn out okay
+
+and what would Eternal Mother say when
+I turn up at her door not to sing of her animals,
+but to come one forevermore?
+to abandon my voice, a sin
+
+***
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander