poem and link
May. 5th, 2009 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coraaI haven't written poetry in quite some time, and this is entirely off-the-cuff, but I was Inspired. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elisem makes beautiful jewelry with intriguing names, and she's having a sale on them right now, and one of the items is a pendant named "The Ladies' Afternoon Tea and Paranormal Research Society." And it made me want to write this.
So I did.
The Ladies' Afternoon Tea and Paranormal Research Society
The ladies meet on Sunday afternoons
for tea and scones.
(they leave a scone and milk for the brownies, and are not
disappointed when the scone is birdpecked, the milk untouched
but for the attentions of cats.
Miss Charlotte's oneirographic device reports:
the scone and milk are sucked quite dry of the proffered generosity
leaving only dairy, flour, raisins for animal attentions.)
They discuss the best way to tell an unrestful ghost
(a pitiable thing and worthy of aid)
from one of the Fair Folk
(dangerous, tricksy, unworthy of sympathy);
whether it is a breach of etiquette to use the aura viewer to determine the suitability of a daughter's suitor;
what runes are best to channel a leyline
so that it enhances one's fortunes
and does not spoil the milk.
They invite a spiritualist
hold hands and listen politely to the table's rapping
thank her kindly
and then smile to themselves as they examine the record from Miss Charlotte's oneirograph:
a flat line, no register at all
save for the spike when the hearth-hob emerged from its hole to see what they were about.
And when the tea is gone and the light begins to fall
they gather themselves
put on their hats
thank one another kindly
and return to the business of their lives and their households.
(Though Miss Charlotte must be careful
to wrap her device in warded silk
to keep it from chattering all night and disturbing her sister's sleep.)
elisem makes beautiful jewelry with intriguing names, and she's having a sale on them right now, and one of the items is a pendant named "The Ladies' Afternoon Tea and Paranormal Research Society." And it made me want to write this.So I did.
The Ladies' Afternoon Tea and Paranormal Research Society
The ladies meet on Sunday afternoons
for tea and scones.
(they leave a scone and milk for the brownies, and are not
disappointed when the scone is birdpecked, the milk untouched
but for the attentions of cats.
Miss Charlotte's oneirographic device reports:
the scone and milk are sucked quite dry of the proffered generosity
leaving only dairy, flour, raisins for animal attentions.)
They discuss the best way to tell an unrestful ghost
(a pitiable thing and worthy of aid)
from one of the Fair Folk
(dangerous, tricksy, unworthy of sympathy);
whether it is a breach of etiquette to use the aura viewer to determine the suitability of a daughter's suitor;
what runes are best to channel a leyline
so that it enhances one's fortunes
and does not spoil the milk.
They invite a spiritualist
hold hands and listen politely to the table's rapping
thank her kindly
and then smile to themselves as they examine the record from Miss Charlotte's oneirograph:
a flat line, no register at all
save for the spike when the hearth-hob emerged from its hole to see what they were about.
And when the tea is gone and the light begins to fall
they gather themselves
put on their hats
thank one another kindly
and return to the business of their lives and their households.
(Though Miss Charlotte must be careful
to wrap her device in warded silk
to keep it from chattering all night and disturbing her sister's sleep.)
