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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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