This entry was posted in Poetry, The Pen on April 29, 2010 by Dee.
Yemaya agrees. Called you to her nest, has she? That The wizard is checking the cost is haunting and the last three lines nail it all down beautifully.
Such a strange day for headlines. They just dripped right onto the page. Same day a headline drew me to an article on FGM, a former model who has written a book and underwent the torture as a child. She escaped through desert to avoid a marriage she had been sold into. Couldn’t even go there. Horrific. I do better when I don’t read the news.