Dame Alice Kyteler
She cast a spell upon their winter garden
encased each and every stem in ice:
a glass menagerie created by a petrified heart
where vulnerable minds were broken thrice.
Alice led four husbands to the altar
but unlike most girls made of sugar and spice,
she tempted them with her Devil’s Bread
by telling them it was a philosopher’s choice.
A fanciful solution, uncork the case
of a harvest of herbals she didn’t sow
but gathered from a decaying plot
beyond the marsh where shadows grow.
Before being caught she fled the country
leaving her servant Petronalla de Meath:
her scapegoat was then flogged and tortured
then set alight atop a bed of reeds.
Bio
Theresa Donnelly is an Irish/Canadian poet who spends her time between Waterville, Co. Kerry and Brooklin, Ontario. Her work has been widely published on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the author of two poetry books, Moon Witch and Other Scary Poems and Recurrence of Blue. Growing up in Dublin, the city of Dracula’s Bram Stoker definitely influenced and fed her appetite for the macabre www.theresadonnelly.com
but gathered from a decaying plot
beyond the marsh where shadows grow.
Before being caught she fled the country
leaving her servant Petronalla de Meath:
her scapegoat was then flogged and tortured
then set alight atop a bed of reeds.
Bio
Theresa Donnelly is an Irish/Canadian poet who spends her time between Waterville, Co. Kerry and Brooklin, Ontario. Her work has been widely published on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the author of two poetry books, Moon Witch and Other Scary Poems and Recurrence of Blue. Growing up in Dublin, the city of Dracula’s Bram Stoker definitely influenced and fed her appetite for the macabre www.theresadonnelly.com
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