E is for Easy and F is for Fate: Sheherazade in Love

A Fabricatress is a woman who Frames, who makes, who builds, who constructs: A liar.
Something Fabulous is celebrated in Fable, is a rare thing that shimmers at the edge of belief . . .
Facile: easy, Free from labor. To lift what pains the body and mind/ Easy on the Eyes. Easy as
Pie. Easy. Slut?
Facet: in diamonds, a multitude of Faces. In insects, any of the small
lenses of a compound      eye.

She’s two-faced, sweet-faced, witty, facetious. Sheherazade is bug-eyed and saying what she
sees: A thousand versions of the same love story: each one starry/ but brutal by the end. A film’s
cut down to a thousand nighttime slices/ A thousand moons show a thousand
trickster faces/There’s a thing that’s false, but shiny in nature/ Sometimes its ok to trust/ what’s
easy. A thread of something real/ twists through the gossamer/ Don’t hurt the spider.

Find published poem here

Illustrated by Michèle Bygodt