Brigitte Goetze, Writer
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Iridescent Gifts

Photo: Corwin Willard
Old Wives Tales


“So, then, what about fairy tales?” You roll your eyes,
“Old wives’ tales, one and all.” Yes, I say, YES, YES, YES!


Consider, if you please, the peasant who refused to join
the common reign and thus defeated


the phantom imprisoning her prince. Do you know
the Grimm truth about the child, forced


to keep a promise rashly given? No kiss, no,
she threw that trickster frog against the wall.


And don’t forget the Italian beauty who knew her head,
when shorn, would nix a brokered marriage, wreck


plans to steal her creative fire. They are potent
inoculants, one and all, against that plague


of cold calculation, advised in “The Prince,”
given to little minds, sugar-coated in fanciful


tales; the crones, bless them, had
learned the high art of subversion.



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