Step softly

- Image courtesy of Kenji Shibata -

Oh, I’m being swallowed by
a magical burst of
worlds –
fluid load
of swans and pigs and pigs and swans
and Cheshire, celestial, feline peacocks
and lamias and centaurs and banshees and nereids and fauns and harpies
and unicorns
and Doppelgängers
and Everything-Nothing-Wandering-Kind,
(avoirdupois),
on my shoulders.
We carry what’s necessary,
that’s how we carry on.
That will do, thank you!

©2015 Emmah Toris
– Image courtesy of Kenji Shibata –