The Owl and the Crab
Editor's Note: The following illustration and poem have been excerpted from the forthcoming anthology, Ladies of Lore, written by Christine Stoddard, illustrated by Christine Skelly, and designed by Kristen Rebelo.
Feathers lapp a speckled shell,
sipping waves of copper milk,
in a tense union of forest and sea,
where lovers are like hunters,
fondling for grains of golden sand
and slightly weathered mice bones.
sipping waves of copper milk,
in a tense union of forest and sea,
where lovers are like hunters,
fondling for grains of golden sand
and slightly weathered mice bones.