
Take Care
Witch: “Careful the tale you tell.
That is the spell.
Children will listen.”
Finale, Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim
Like beanstalks, lies sprout overnight
rising high enough to support giants, as the world withers
below
a field of moon-daisies grows,
with seeds cast like spells
to reflect light,
the glimmer-truth of stars,
birdsong carried and bee-buzzed
child-seen before
they learn. Careful,
they listen.
A quadrille for dVerse. The prompt word is spell. My head is full of lies and stories. Some of the same . . . I watched the January 6 Committee hearings today—more revelations about the former president’s lies.
We saw Into the Woods at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia on Saturday. Coincidentally. Bernadette Peters sang “Children Will Listen” last night at the Tony Awards in a segment honoring the late Stephen Sondheim.
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