Monday, November 18, 2024

BETTER NOT TO ASK

 

Baba Yaga, who resists talking about her first term

As a goddess, tries to distract you,

Fiddling with your grandfather's watch 

(Bought for five dollars in 1930),

Flipping a silver half-dime (lost by you in 1976)

Then letting it hover in mid-air

(As if 1976's luck would be any good now!)

Lost and broken things make their way to her;

She offers you good tea in a mug whose shards

Have put themselves back together almost perfectly

Except for one side of it it; there, a beaming

Wedgwood sun hangs upside-down.

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