Published in the Colorado Times Recorder https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2024/08/poem-in-spite-of-the-evidence/63472/
Tracking the lyric valuables in the shadow of Lone Cone on Colorado's Western Slope
Published in the Colorado Times Recorder https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2024/08/poem-in-spite-of-the-evidence/63472/
It's Honey, Darling!
We’ve killed all the Bees.
Now – as we’re the smartest on earth
at the same time once a month
we all stand outside tongue out
to lick one drop of acid rain
and imagine it’s honey
-Serena Piccoli
Cinderella
Our primal Europathic pubescent girl myth
all dressed up in charming patriarchy
& yet carrier of the good witch
fairy godmother virus
which the Vatican almost eradicated
with its feudal bloodletting & auto-de-fé flames
but here survives infecting even valley girls
with some wild lost scent of the goddess.
The story Chinese originally
9th century Taoist tale
told with spice & Marco Polo'd
back to the Mediterranean.
How yin yang
with luck it goes
from rags to riches
gutters to golden slippers
& all too soon is gone
at the midnight hour
when we freeze in place
Delphic statuary wreathed
& lyred in our own polished fable
facing the forever eternal now.
Happily ever after
or not.
Karen's SPRUCE and SAGEBRUSH website
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