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"Ladies of the Dance" by Deborah Sage

At the silver borders of night, when

Stars are scattered coins across a velvet

Sky and the moon glows sovereign and sublime,

They come, twelve sisters in their satin shoes.

 

Noiseless as ghosts, they glide through glittering groves,

Bound for boats to ferry them across the rippling

Lake into the land of Faerie.

They come to dance unfettered,

Until their shoes are shreds and

Starlight dissolves into dawn.

 

They come in emerald silk and silvered cloaks,

Fingers flashing ruby rings and sapphire stones,

Pearls threaded through unbound hair.

The sisters come without a thought toward

Peril, buoyed by risk and

Arrayed in enchantment.

 

Inside flame-lit halls, ethereal music plays.

No stray thought disturbs; no desire intrudes.

And though they spin with princes across

Cool stone floors,

They dance only for themselves.

Deborah Sage is a native of Kentucky, USA. She has most recently been published in Eternal Haunted Summer, Literary LEO, Fairy Tale Magazine, From the Farther Trees, the 2022 Dwarf Stars AnthologyAmethyst Press All Shall Be Well anthology for Julian of Norwich and Eye to the Telescope.


Image: "The Shoes that were Danced to Pieces" by Elenore Abbott

 


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