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Time Stirred Them Like Leaves
Her breasts swell before her stomach.
She’s sinfully voluptuous, the prince whispers
To her each night, conjuring memories
Of those same words her stepsisters told her
When she was on the cusp of womanhood
Now she is on the cusp of something
Much more frightening: motherhood
She does not know how to tell the Prince
When it still feels as though they are
Strangers to each other in many ways
She wishes to shy away from his hands
that skim the parts of herself even she
doesn’t know yet, and now she is sharing her
body with two and it is easier to open her legs
to one of them than it is to open her heart to both.
Not that the Prince notices, but her heart
crowds her chest at night, and Cinderella realizes
there’s many things her husband doesn’t seem to notice.
As much as she wants to she can’t hold this against him,
not when Time has stirred them like leaves on an autumn breeze
And she imagines poor Charming is as dizzy from it all as she is.
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