“The Fey Are Whispering in This Wind Tonight”
Is that Queen Mab, her wild hair tossed about
her long fingers streaking bits of color across
the sky, is that her court disappearing
out of sight as September turns to October
and the sound of wind through turning leaves
sounds like faerie laughter, or whispers?
Is that a magickal party in progress,
those sparkles on the telephone wire?
No, maybe it’s just this day’s rain,
decorating leaf, branch, shimmering in
morning light, saying: Something unusual
went here, something fantastic, something
older than shiny costumes in every store,
something that quickens the breath
even as bones tell of cold days coming.
But the child in me still laughs with joy,
unwilling to give in to the stiffness of age,
my hands open to receive whatever the fey
wish to treat me with.
James Stansberry
James is a Seattle writer/cancer warrior/psychic/medium
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