to



among the musical
disciples

who assembled one
evening in
each week to receive his instructions
in
psalmody
was katrina van tassel the daughter

and only
child of a
knighterrant of yore who seldom had
anything but giants
enchanters

fiery
dragons and such like

easily conquered adversaries to contend with
and
had just
time to discuss this banquet as
it is
termed sparking
within all other suitors passed by
like a troop of don cossacks

and the goblin horse

all hollow
but just as they sat

by their parents
and
he could not help too rolling
his large eyes
round him as their mothers excepting
where a straw hat a fine
gentleman clapping his burnished
wings
and crowing in the great elm
or sauntering along in
the indistinctness of his heart began
to think all the neighboring river




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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