Come closer, my child.
I have something for you.
It is quite magic and wild
And might consist of some few
Things! Don’t you want things?
Creamy pies and surreptitious wings
Of flight? Some might say to sing
That you are a very weakened thing
Of your mother! Little fucker!
Can you give me too your brother?

 

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Voice of the Witch: Tempting Gretl by Neesa Sunar
originally published in the Winter 2011 print edition