Another Poem by Jane Yolen for National Poetry Month

Once again combining poetry and Carl's Once Upon a Time challenge:

"Once Upon A Time," She Said                           by Jane Yolen

"Once upon a time," she said, and the world began anew: a vee of geese flew by, plums roasting in their breasts; a vacant-eyed princess sat upon a hillock of glass; a hut strolled through a tangled wood, the nails on its chickenfeet blackened and hard as coal; a horse's head proclaimed advice from the impost of an arch; one maiden spoke in toads, another in pearls, and a third with the nightingale's voice. If you ask me, I would have to say all the world's magic comes directly from the mouth.

(via Endicott Studio)

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I've been so busy this last week with one thing or another that I've not been keeping up with my blogging.  

To be reviewed:  The Shadow Hunt by Katherine Langrish (buddy read with Kailana), The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald, Attachments by Rainbow Rowell,  Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay, and The Whisperers by John Connolly.