“Godess Kali” © Tamizh Ponni VP

 

Cinderella and the Stepsisters’ Trial: A Tritina

Expert Witness #1:
pleads that the facets of a life are not slicing edges.
The self determines whatever tale is found,
and evidence otherwise confuses the light.

Arresting Officer:
holds high the evidence he found.
A shoehorn, knapped from diamond light—
in the courtroom blood drips from its edges.

Character Witness #1:
places a cindered hand daintily on the light.
Swears her stepsisters are not all flawed edges,
but unpolished truths—trying on all shoes found.

Verdict:
Inadmissible lives: their edges are found to dirty the light.

 

Shutta Crum is an oft-published poet who likes to paint poems. Words, white space, punctuation, sound on a page or drifting into an ear are the media she loves to have a playdate with. One never knows what can happen. (Her whole family was gained through poetry when she met her husband who was editing a small press journal.)

Tamizh Ponni VP is an ambivert and a stoic art buff who loves to express her skills through literature, visual arts and music. She is an IB educator and sees learning as a life-long process. Her stories were featured in 2 anthology books, “Mia” and “Varna”. Tamizh’s articles, poems and paintings have also been published in many digital journals and educational blogs. Tamizh spends most of her free time painting, reading, writing articles, stories and poems, playing piano and watching documentaries/movies.