by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 15, 2022 | Poetry, Web Exclusives
i decayed to a voice a vowel a stressed syllable. trapped in the glass of my childhood jar. i used to stab stars in the top. insects crawled on the bottom. i should have been Eve in shrink wrap. gliding towards the forbidden pear. that infamous clock with green flesh....
by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 15, 2022 | Prose, Web Exclusives
The first time that the trees began to walk, Mae wore pink onesies and couldn’t yet talk. She lived with her mother at the end of the road, and they had two trees that lived with them. One was a big gray maple called Old Mother. She had a scratchy beard of moss that...
by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 15, 2022 | Poetry, Web Exclusives
man in the land of Uz you don’t know the first thing about a crow where to trace its roots when to call the doctor in the summer what words to say to its siblings you keep a quiet house on sundays you lay your plenty under the basil your...
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...
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