Shhhhh…
There is a
witch living
on the corner
where the four
roads meet.
Her eye is
evil, her
nose crooked.
She lays down
the tarot
pattern
with wrinkled
hands.
Asks “do you wish
tea of wormwood
or henbane?”
She will enchant
your mind now
into fields of
wild roses.
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary zines such as Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Blueline, Halcyon Days and included in Bright Hills Press, Kind of A Hurricane Press and Poppy Road Review anthologies. She has been nominated four times for Best of the Net.
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