The Disposition of a Crone

Elf Witch originally made for by Danny Hennesy ca 2006 for Danny Hennesy´s great fantasy game

I have a penchant for stately, graceful words,
the artful turn of phrase.

the sheer beauty of imagery washes 
over me.

words stick
make salve,
while I cozy up to a stanza or two.

there is another part
anxious and brittle
largely untapped

which rarely sits still long enough
to access.

I want to unwrap it
before the paper wedges too tightly,
hear the crinkle of it as it is removed,

              and breathe-----

I want to take off the clothes that bind me-----
yell fuck to the wind-----
and howl at the moon----

sometimes,
crones just aren’t nice.

copyright/all rights reserved Audrey Howitt 2012 


Come join us at Dverse  for #OpenLinkNight- 

For those of you who have read this already, I apologize! I am getting ready to go to Europe (YAY!!), and have international guests here while I a gone (YIKES!!)-