WHEN BABA YAGA WAS YOUNG

I knew Baba Yaga, the old Muse said,
When she was young and fat and kind;
This was in the old days when everything
Was undetermined and Excalibur did not know if he
Was to be a sword or a man or perhaps a bird
Coasting idly on his green-flecked wings.
The kraken was wide awake those days
The soul of every party, not dreaming
He would spend his life in dreams.