It’s easy to judge from outside the wood, but inside, metal is tested.
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The boy turns his head, both bare feet on the pedals, the training wheels propping both him and the red rusted frame up forevermore.
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How stupid could you possibly be, to fall in love with a trickster god?
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Promises are such heavy things when spoken, like lead upon the tongue, the weight of them always present in the keeping.
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She knew not to step into fairy circles, but the flowers he showed her grew in uneven whorls and patches, and so she thought she was safe.
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They may say that forgiveness is a balm for the soul, but only revenge will allow me to rest.
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a goddess reborn into wrath and vengeance / because no one rages like you
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She heard, but did not see, the quick lightning strike that lit the altar before them, the rising flame of the burnt offering…
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The girl wandered in, no longer wild, no longer brave or bright, but weary and frightened, wielding her beauty as a shield before her.
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The underworld wolf / rises to raze this flock. / He leaves thin / shades—trailing to the grove.
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This is what they kept secret from you: fairy tales are ours to weave. In time, you will learn that, too, as did the ones before you.
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I am named for the parsley my mother swallowed by the bushel, to try and flush her womb of me. I was not so easily got rid of.
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When I cloud-gaze, I forget I’m a single human in the great big world. I focus on the flowers in the sky, and I melt.
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If each grieving woman could hurl worlds down, the worlds would not stand long.
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She whispers tales of angry daughters / and mad wives, / of stolen children / and disrupted lives…
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rule me worthy, Lordly Flock, / fly low and cheerfully carouse.
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Skeleton Woman bared the fisherman, slipped a finger into his warmth, retrieved the heart, clasped it to her core.
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You want to say, they aren’t nightmares. You say, “I haven’t been alone in years.”
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