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Grass and Stone and Stars, a poem in three forms

Sonnet

The grass between my toes,
the stars above my head.
These vanish as the stone asserts itself,
and I am left without an imp, or elf,
or any thing they said I owned,
to which I took myself, and honed
the spells unheard by Christian dead.
A chair, they said, was mine at secret shows.

They saw me in the woods,
in conversation with
a local wife at work with axe and rope.
They saw me kiss her on the mouth, a hope
between us like Sodom:
a stain on all of Christendom.

Triolet

The stone asserts itself
as grass or stars in Christendom.
I kissed her like the furtive elf
the stone asserts, itself
the proof of why I stand upon a shelf,
below which leers Sodom.
The stone asserts, itself
as grass or stars, in Christendom.

Haiku

Ancient, leafy woods.
Kiss beside a felléd tree.
Stone gaol, distant.
Written by The_Silly_Sibyl (Jack Thomas)
Published
Author's Note
I don't think that this quite clear wbeni first shared the poem years ago, but the narrator is a lesbian witch in the age of the European witch trials.
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