Poems to mythical entites #3

Elf Queen

please do not
lead me astray

elf queen you prepare me a feast
but I am the one you want to consume

elf queen you rule
from a wooded throne
and I
am an intruder
in your queendom

please grant me safe passage
through these woods

I am so
clumsy
in the presence of your
elvish grace

please forgive me










Cockatrice

there are an estimated
47 distinct ways
to be killed
by a cockatrice

always they are
turning people into stone

be wary of a cockatrice's hiss
it will hiss one third of the time

normally
hissing has a ten percent chance to begin
the petrification process

If it is a new moon
and you are not carrying a lizard corpse
the chance to die is one hundred percent

if you are turning into stone
you can eat a lizard corpse to stop it
even lizard from a tin can works

better open that can
quickly