WINTER, SNOW, THORN

Written for prompt ‘‘I have daughters and I have sons’ at 31_days
Series: Sleeping Beauty (a generic fairy-tale version)
Rating/Warnings: T. Implied non-con (it's Sleeping Beauty, ok), implied incest. Poetry!fic.
A/N: yeah, it turns out that when you add a male sibling into a fairy story, the dynamic gets pretty disturbing. And Sleeping Beauty is already disturbing! Not to mention, sestinas are already enclosed and cyclical. I should just have gone with Hansel and Gretel, they only get almost eaten.


My wife slid into deep winter white sleep

When she bore me a son and a daughter.

My daughter learned the use of her needle.

My son crept with the frost across the forest.

And the year held winter in its eye

Like a fish curls its lip round a hook.

 

( Winter, snow, thorn )