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My muse is the noon-day witch and she always pops-up unexpectedly. |
| The Noon-Day Witch There is no escape from the noon-day witch. I'm in the kitchen rolling out pies when she arrives,roiling up the stairs. She has powdered herself with dandelion dust leaving puffs of herself everywhere. My thoughts(and pies) are muddled and lumpy like lemonade gravy. This noon lemonade is heavy. Un peu de Pernod peut-etre? We drink it anyway, and toast the Belle of Amherst. Sliced, silken papaya lies in a cut-glass bowl seething of vanilla spice. Phillip Glass passes time on the radio. He's da bomb. Someday all the bombing shall cease. Seizing the moment,the noon-day witch keens for her subterranean urges. Her soft underbelly glows with a pale phosphoresence. She is a worm and has no bones. She juggles galgalim ;celestial spheres. She is a golem made of memories. The pies are done baking. They are winking their good-byes. The noon-day witch is sweeping up leavings of herself before she flies. Toots, when the universe throws you lemons... I'll make wavy gravy. There will be no place to hide, when next she arrives. |