The UnLegend Of SideWaysSleepingBeauty~

Would you believe

it happened in Michigan of all the Underlands?

 

The toddler was a pea pod pixie of a pollen dream

though she was very clever in her human disguise

bouncing upon mother’s knee

as the Carnival unfurled its curtains

looking properly affrighted as all wee ones should

at the approach of massive elephants

wearing Dixie cup hats

sporting rambunctious clowns on their backs;

she could barely contain the glitter inside her cheeks

that tickled to explode

with laughter

but, as I said, she was clever

and managed to suck the sparklies down into her abdomen

where they turned into butterflies

whispering universal truths along her neural pathways

with fluttering wings

 

Still don’t believe

it happened in Michigan, Brighton, to be exact?

 

 

Elephant one, who detested being named Wally

saw the magik girl instantly

and much to the protestations of the clown he unceremoniously

tossed into a pool of pink poodles doing somersaults

ambled up to her

and trunk to nose, said

“I give you the gift of naming magik wherever your footsies take you.”’;

cross eyed pixie in intense focus

pulled Wally's ear

and whispered sideways around the bend of everydays

so only he could hear her

“I name you Dumbo.”

and sent the newly christened Dumbo off to Disney Land

 

Michigan is a magik place, I tell you

with fairies sprouting all over the place

 

Next came the saddest clown of all the Underlands

who had foolishly dropped out of High School

to invest more time in his meth lab

unfortunately

enchanted places don’t go for that kind of nonsense

and pushed a police cruiser off a side road

straight into the sad clown’s druggie tent

spoiling a few thousand dollars worth of truly hard labor

and all the saddest clown got was two years in a juvenile detention center

and afterwards,  a job with the Carnival;

well, the saddest clown, in quite an impressive handstand, palmed up to magik girl

and spoke thusly

“I give you the gift of mending broken people.”

and again she bent the atoms in the air

to make their own private bubble, and said

“Poof, you are Charlie Sheen!”

and sent him off to some good years

and a wicked scandal

neither could see just yet

 

Brighton hiccupped the day she was born,

and the Underlands would never be the same

 

The finale!

the Carnival wrapped in Tom Waits music

cymbals, drums, gravelly conductor crooning

a raven on his top hat, announcing

Her

the woman who spread red curtains aside

on fluted stilts

her bones whispered into the arena

twelve feet high

straight to pixelated pixie girl covered in pollen magik

low she bent from narrow waist

emerald eyes encased in feather lashes

sweeping, she sang

“I give you the gift of pouring ink

the gift of bleeding onyx

your words may one day bless the world

redraw it through harmonics

twiddle fingers

dipping quill

into the inkwell

of deep will.”

and then . . . .

the Kiss for SidewaysSleeping Beauty’s sparkly forehead

right on the lid of her third eye

awakening

the deepest Dreamer from a thousand year slumber

 

And, would you believe, it happened in Brighton, Michigan

of all the Underlands . . . .

 

 

 

 

 

copyright:2011vssmd/amusemusepress

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Author's Note

inspired by a conversation with Kelsie Stark~ who wears the surreal mantle of inking spirit deeper ito the inversed universe~ =)~ .

Reviews

[Poeticadia]

Invitingly magical... the extraordinary origins of these special gifts is an unlegend so exceptional in the making... an exquisite tale that has lifted me out of the clamour of the mundane grinding itself towards evening. Who'd have thought... in one of the many Brighton's around the world?

[Jūdan FyreHeart]

This was a beautifully told tale done in a way only you can do, dear wife. The magick bursting forth, kept under careful wraps before elegantly spilling out.

[.......]

Wow, This is so amazing. I enjoyed this Selene.

[Ruth]

Each and every time Selene, I read your work, am I transported into a land - no - many lands..that holds the wisest and most colourful words ever!
I sit here, thinking and re-reading LOL Thinking..good heavens..you rock!
Brilliant hon!
xx

[LilyT]

You have the capacity to take an ordinary trip to the Carnival and revamp it into something beyond extraordinary. Here you've given us a celestial romp through disassembled fairy tales, metaphysics, and the Buddha nature, and did it with the most engaging and humorous thinly veiled social commentary for our gray modern days. You, my dear friend, are spilling magic and enchantment and wonder back into the world one poem at a time!
Charlie Sheen, Dumbo, really!!!!! lol

[Ed Hart]

yes, but if it wasn't for all of that, you couldn't say all of this...so many things you could have done, without the magic