![]() Eating Fairies in the GardenA Poem by Leonidas![]() Like an old folk tale... the way it is supposed to be.![]()
Strands of breath glaze richness into the pores of my nostrils, shivering with metallic saccharine soil. My muggy tongue flicker-quivers tasting the air.
“Mhmmm, mhmmm darling little lunches.” Slinky slide by blade by blade the muddy grass strips to mud beneath my wrinkly wrangled form. A sudsy eye of mine burst between lime tanged leaves " and I see them little things, them scrumptious delights that strut amongst the astral shrooms. I hold my grinding shards a-stiff as yellow dribble corkscrews upon my pompous lower lip. My net will fish a stew it will, as it rumbles beneath my thumbs. “Catchy Catchy Catchy!” I yell, dancing in twirls around the garden netting my little tasties. They flicker their sea sparkle wings, but my arms are too hasty and I catch every last one. And so, I pull a pretty out of her webbed prison and stare her in those hypnotic vulnerable blinkers. She makes a begging sound and all I know is POUND-POUND-POUND! her teeny body into the GROUND! O, she is so tender as I shred her between my teeth. Only her blood drowned wing sticks to my nose, but I slap it up with my gummy tongue. Immortality continues. © 2012 Leonidas |
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