Sunday, January 01, 2006

Do Fairies Go Bootless?

I started working on this story in 1995, and it has been 'a work in progress'

Tourist fairies stroll downtown-
meandering in from woods and downs
trekking from mountain villages hidden.
Identity disclosure? strictly forbidden.
The boots are a must for stealthy disguise
as for their feet? I theorize:

Perhaps hinds feet nimble and true,
turning quick and graceful as dancers' do,
like a home-body hobbit's, silently swift,
aerodynamic for maximum lift.
Disguise tucks foot in boot,
no dancing, no playing the flute.

But when days are warmly sunny,
made for bare feet and full tummies,
sand trickling between toes,
ticklesome grasses in the breeze blow:
No fairy could miss splashing through streams,
laughter sparkling as moonlight gleams.

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