Pathlessness – dark, deep,
fairies’ weird wild forest home
bewildering knights
Many ogres seen
in seldom travelled deep woods –
long labyrinthine hours
Wayward villages –
wily witches dream-beguile
slumbering peasants
Doors lock, frightened bolts –
wind-wails drag distant shades near,
branches beckoning
Crossroads monsters wait –
here are strange cold clinging things
knights know before sleep
Promises kept – on far side of ever impossible forest glade.
Implied Spaces 