Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Baba Yaga

Little green thing lay

squat in brakes,

plotted rotting,

scanned chokes

and oozes brewed

in gutters,

and chuckled;

they gurgled

and splashed in chunks.


Cauldron with fat

boil to match crusts,

seethes, sweats bile

in globs tapping toccata,

ekes out millennia

hexing spiders to drip venom.


Chipped pestle digs

grooves into finger skin

of toddlers who wander

too near scrawny stalks;

mortar creaks; bone-dust

lubricates murderous beak.


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