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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Mapping the Ways
2. Spinning the Tales
3. Voices & Viewpoints
4. Spell Binding & Spell Breaking
5. Magical Objects
6. Desire & Its Discontents
7. The Grimm Sisterhood
8. Variations & Updates
9. Ever After, Or a Few Years Later
10. Living the Tales
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index of Poems by Tale Index of Authors and Titles
About the Editors
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E S T H A W E I N E R
Transfiguration Begins at Home
The "Cinderella Staircase" divided upstairs
from downstairs its curves of elegance
branded early on the child who turned it
into a story over and over again
The person who started at the top was
never the person who reached the bottom
The one who climbed it from the bottom was
always different at the top Cinderella
could turn into a princess A prince could
turn into a frog Before a father could
descend it with a daughter on his arm
to give her away in marriage a daughter
would ascend it with a father on her arm
to give him away to silence Anything
is possible
"Transfiguration Begins at Home" first appeared in Rattapallax #7, ©2002 by Estha Weiner. Reprinted by permission of the author.
It is a violation of copyright law to distribute or reproduce this poem without express permission of the author.
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