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Patience

Rosalind Casey

(A Student Contributor)

Poetry
Fantasy

She waits for her story to start
And comforts herself in the waiting
For heroines excel at patience
At sleeping amongst briars
At the unraveling of shrouds
At watching from windows
At standing statuesque in temples
In boudoirs, in brothels
In caverns, in forests, in cages spun of spidersilk
In towers heavy with the dragon’s amber gaze
She waits
And comforts that nagging concern:
She will no longer be a heroine
By the time her story starts
But merely a midwife
A stepmother
A beggar-sorceress
A crone.

                                                              


 

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Copyright 2010, Rosalind Casey. All rights reserved.

Rosalind Casey hails from Texas but attends school in the Freezing North. Her work has appeared in print in The San Antonio Express-News and The Houston Chronicle, and online in the poetry webzine Goblin Fruit and previously in MindFlights.

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