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Melusine ( the shoe )
Yes - that shoe fits me and only me
I shed it as I fled the ball
before the chimes of midnight finished striking
Its pointy toe and glassy shell
and toeless perfect symmetry
would never fit a human girl
Try as they will
with binding cloths and surgery
they’ll never make a foot like mine
A fairy foot is shaped and fine
adagio in a symphony,
I glided round the dancefloor swirling
to the music , gently twirling ,
in my floor-length tuillerie
like pearly flotsam on a lake
Just for the night a flower blooming
from a pool of Mercury
An almost-human fairy snake
Anita Greg 14/05/2019
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