she was Betrayer

Herodias with the Head of Saint John the Baptist, Francesco del Cairo

she was Betrayer:
       maker   of worlds  endings   checkpoints
       bedtime stories with mortal morals: spiders drown in rainspouts & the wolves in your 
       world are hungry & their hunger is for your young flesh &   if you sing the right singsong 
       incantation, honey  if you chant the right jumprope rhyme on the playground five times you 
       get one wish

he stumblechanted her unfamiliar name
he stumblechanted her unfamiliar name
he stumblechanted her unfamiliar name
he stumblechanted her unfamiliar name
he stumblechanted her unfamiliar name &

she was ∎