Girl Who Stripped Skin From UnFairy Tales~

Girl Who Stripped Skin From UnFairy Tales~

A Poem by NoneOfYourBusiness akaKITTY KUTABAREakaCandyPole
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~twisting fairy tales~

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She tripped between the words

the turning pages hissed

the consonants ripped

she fell into the arbor

of her gown of beads and pearls

tears streaming

her nails on the stone ground

screaming

blood calligraphy in rivulets

she, pleading

“don’t write me like this!”

Perrault paused

his pen weaving

eyes gleaming

ink in the story

mad man in dark glory

writing her a sire

chained by odd desires

a mother in the ground

covered with daisies

maidens  praying

knees in mud

Perrault overplaying

his hand

the fairy godmother

drew a plan

princess asked the king for virtue

he painted her skin gown

in lavender, in skye blues

daughter asked her sire for mercy

but he broke the moon in twain

and laid her out for burning

she asked him for reprieve

but he poured the sun

out on her mystique

and then she begged  him for the skin

of the animal, his sin

and he covered her in paints

Perrault’s fingers nimble

pressing deep her tale

into the parchment

torn with pain

while she in donkey skin

and silks

bound by blood

came undone

there beneath the canopy

where poets dream insanity

she reached between the paper

and

grabbed the writer’s wrists

and bent

bent him deep into her story

stripping him of mind

of glory

rushed her soul

up

and above

to the side

and through his gloves

buried herself in the veins

while pressing his last pained refrain

into the ink

the pages marred

the princess poured the ink

in drips

pressed the quill

against his story

wrapping him in donkey skin

the girl, she flipped

the writers sin

adjusted every golden link

unbound of adjectives and nouns

she coaxed the action verbs to ground

and ground she did

while Perrault screamed

trapped in his own bloody dream

 

And I tottered on the edge of seat

a little girl at old crone’s feet

she spoke but once, then

after that

“do you, my child, then comprehend?

The moral and the lesson here?”

I nodded, whispered

“Yes I hear”

and in the pleats of ruby cape

the dagger in my hand regained

its sweet intent

now clear and bold

I knew then

there

the stories told

were guideposts toward absolution

and I gave the loom my resolution

spun my blood drops through the quilt

rose

unwound

my hand on hilt

of blade

and story

writer’s  oath

I stepped out of the donkey skin

into the cradle of the boat

weaving princess out of shackles

into girl with sword for brambles

drowning Perraults  in a barrel;

unbind This Book

at your own peril

 

 

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© 2011 NoneOfYourBusiness akaKITTY KUTABAREakaCandyPole


Author's Note

NoneOfYourBusiness akaKITTY KUTABAREakaCandyPole
~dismembering Perrault's disturbing fairy tale, Donkey Skin~

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Sweet jesus, mary and cheezits!!

Oh Selene, I did have to come up for air just once, but I took a deep breath and finished this until my eyes bulged out of my dome...

whew

Your writing can be a workout... puff.. that is good for the body and the soles of our wandering imagination... love this, love you, love... just love period... :))

You are the awesomest blossomest!!

Posted 13 Years Ago


3 of 3 people found this review constructive.




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I prefer your retelling. You're creative and imaginative core are without limit. You never cease to amaze me.

Posted 13 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Brilliant! So much to love here, Selene. As always, you offer a lush and sustaining poetic feast, leaving me content but unwilling to push myself away from the table. Effortless flow, gorgeous storytelling, thrilling, potent, vivid, creatively inspiring and positively spell binding. I love her cry "Don't write me like this!" and the completion of the tale with Grandmother and the bold maiden with the keen edge. You've captured so much of what I have always loved best about fairy tales before they were watered down for children.

Posted 13 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

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yes it wasn't the most pleasant tale he wrote..and as you know I love a twisted ending..another fine literary piece..

Posted 13 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

I never read that fairy tale, but your work here compels me I find it an interesting concept that the characters of a tale rise up and fight their maker. Beautiful work as always!

Posted 13 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Oh you sure gave him his due in this rendering! Your rhythm throughout is perfection! The character pulling the writer into her own shoes is priceless!!!
WIld and beautiful un fairy tale!


unbound of adjectives and nouns

she coaxed the action verbs to ground


Creative and priceless!!!

Posted 13 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Cheezits indeed. Decoded delightful.

Posted 13 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

It's new to me, I was deprived of love as a child, no one read me fairy tales no Jack fell down upon my eider down, no golden goose or cinderella no magic castles with there banners flying unfurled on high

Now as for this elegant writing, was she at first at the writers will, and then drag said wtiter within? for that it seemed to me at least, was a most unusual scheme to plot.........but I liked it :O)

Posted 13 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Sweet jesus, mary and cheezits!!

Oh Selene, I did have to come up for air just once, but I took a deep breath and finished this until my eyes bulged out of my dome...

whew

Your writing can be a workout... puff.. that is good for the body and the soles of our wandering imagination... love this, love you, love... just love period... :))

You are the awesomest blossomest!!

Posted 13 Years Ago


3 of 3 people found this review constructive.


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