Don’t Buy Cheap Witchpowder
a mortal’s attempted enchanting of a
witch with Walmart witchpowder
can (or may) boomerang a toxic
charm and be lethal snake’s
milk in a hidden fang
from a witch’s tooth in a deathly smile,
an incantation of a venomous backfiring – like an ax in a girl’s back, its bloody
handle swathed in golden locks of hair
A Double Golden Shovel poem using two vertical lines from Elizabeth Willis’s “The Witch”
Common Threads 