Cinderella
Our primal Europathic pubescent girl myth
all dressed up in charming patriarchy
& yet carrier of the good witch
fairy godmother virus
which the Church almost eradicated
with its feudal bloodletting & auto de fe flames
but here survives infecting even valley girls
with some wild lost scent of the goddess.
The story Chinese originally
9th century Taoist tale
told with spice & Marco Polo'd
back to the Mediterranean.
How yin yang
with luck it goes
from rags to riches
gutters to golden slippers
& all too soon is gone
before the midnight hour
when we freeze in place
Delphic statuary wreathed
& lyred in our own polished fable
facing the forever eternal now.
Happily ever after
or not.
