Friday, June 20, 2008

fairytale coda

the woodsman returned home
with the wolf
tossed over his shoulder,
smiling grimly
through a haze of blood -

the sun in the fairytale forest
buzzed through the trees
like an alarm,
a warning.

the heroes, the sidekicks,
the kings, heroines,
& all their animal friends
crept warily
out of their warrens -
spite lolling in their eyes
like a growing glaucoma -

what now, villain!
- their boisterous cry,

come back the echo -
what villain, now?

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