
Illustration: Anne Anderson from Grimm’s Fairy Tales (London and Glasgow 1922)
He wanted her to spin
Straw
Into gold.
To make the mundane
Magic
To behold.
Though the metal
Nourished
Naught,
And left only
An empty
Cot.
Where with
Better thought
He might’ve
Got,
Riches which
Could not
Be bought.
Note: A little spin on Rumpelstiltskin
For Anmol’s dVerse poetics: Myths and Legends

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