TW: Cannibalism
He asked me what I’m thinking about,
And I said, “Trolls.”
“The mythical kind?”
Mythical!
What human nonsense!
I said, “I’ll club you in the head,
I’ll box your ears,
I’ll ring you all around the pond,
I’ll string you up from the trees!”
And his smile only widened, incurable fool.
Penelope Steiss is a poet, author and folklorist who lives between a swamp in Florida and a forest in Sweden.