Rumpelstiltskin

I wrote an odd ballad poem thing.

Haven’t shared much poetry here in a while, so I thought I’d post this odd fairytale ballad thing I wrote some time back. It was inspired by Anne Sexton’s fairytale retellings in her book Transformations, though it’s not much like her writing, for better or (more likely) worse. (You can read her version of Cinderella here.) The illustration here is by Anne Anderson.

And here’s my version: