By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 2 December 1999

Yearning for a Glass Box in the Woods

I wish I was dead like Snow White
      beautiful and still
       frozen with poison
  the kiss awake would be worth
        all the pain
 I am going insane in this 
         bland forest
   where is the evil and 
      the reasons
        to run 
    I want the rain
       to come
   and wash this heat
         away
   I would like to 
          freeze
    for a long, long time
      then find myself
    in the April sunshine
     with my co-conspirator
     in Happily Ever After...