by Fairy Tale Review | Nov 8, 2019 | Poetry, Web Exclusives
after Yeats’s “The Stolen Child”Their daughter was unusual, born with dirt caked inside her skeleton, packed in so tight she resembled a real child, the hardlines of her face so much like her grandmother who was born without arms who, when given to her mother,...
by Fairy Tale Review | Oct 11, 2019 | Poetry, Web Exclusives
Queen of Hearts The Queen is beating aroundher bushes, yelling to the tens and fives: Quick! quicken the blooms, redden the forlornbleachy roses, their thorny teeth, their clichéd form!The rogue hedgehogs tuck and roll, avoiding blush feathersand...
by Fairy Tale Review | Aug 28, 2019 | Poetry, Web Exclusives
We burn his photo under the tree. My friend, I trust her witchcraft.Kai is a midwife and never asks for too much. She takes hands and fillsthem. Asks, Did you want to be a pet? I’d eaten clay for this, which tastedgood: like warm bread dough or a sour tongue. Which...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jul 24, 2019 | Poetry, Web Exclusives
Orpheus Wanders Out of the Wood Were you following your own wound back? Firstscratch of skinned descent. Your parents must’ve been distant gods for you to appear in the wind of forest trails, patching home from what a song provides. Scattered notes. Nuthatches, like...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jul 5, 2019 | Web Exclusives
At fourteen, you began calling me beautiful hyacinth girl after T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, and when the snow finally melted and spring came you plucked petals from the olive tree in the garden and weaved them into my red hair until even my eyes were covered like...
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