Wednesday's Verse - I Met an Elf on a Summer's Day
This week’s verse moves from a poem about the moon to an almost-Dr-Seuss-style urban-fantasy piece about meeting the wrong kind of elf. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Met anElf on a Summer's Day It happened on a summer’s day, I saw an elf along the way, and what do you think I heard him say? Hey, babe, are you headed my way? Not what I thought to hear from an elf I said to my somewhat gobsmacked self. So, I shook my head, and wished him good health, but told him I was going somewhere else. Hey, babe, what do you mean? And then he said something quite obscene, so I kept walking, though my soul did keen for the elves who’d in my childhood been, those merry souls, who in forests danced, who magicked the unicorns who pranced, and cast magicks quite advance
