Grimm Poemsby Joseph Stanton |
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1. The Three Snake Leaves When one of us dies let the one who lives travel underground to steal the three leaves from the secretest snake and place them gently but with haste at the three doorways of the cold body: one for the right eye, one for the left eye, one for the mouth. Both of us must swear to this or neither of us can live forever. 2. Briar Rose This is the way the world should be. Beautiful daughters do not die. Instead, the universe stops with her breath, which becomes the timer for everything else, so that, when a miracle undoes her death, all of us — every father, every friend, every fly on the wall, every budding leaf — awaken to gather round her, to laugh with joy that she is here and so are we. | |
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