Out on a Limb

Out on a limb she goes, for the sweetest fruit


the rarest bloom


the truest word forbidden.



When the bough breaks


The cradle will fall


Down comes your baby,


daydreams and all


Into the water and out of her mind,


they say, with violets and thyme. 

 


Brook into stream,


river to sea,

 

To be or not to be.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This is the opener to my newest book, Ophelia Rising, a picaresque historical novel about the once and future life of Shakespeare's fair maiden before and after Hamlet.

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Truly, Shakespeare has been

Truly, Shakespeare has been reincarnated in you in order to continue on the Hamlet Epic. 


post multa malae accidunt, bonae accidere potest.