Zillah & The Winds

There was a time when Zillah would relentlessly whisper to the winds.

She would reveal to the Eastern Wind of her dire loneliness and of the gossiping nature of a rag doll and a cotton rabbit who scuff her feelings like a pair of diligent sailors scraping barnacles from the undersides of a ship.

She would confess to the Western Wind her desires and her longings that seemed inevitably lost in a maze of confounded fate.

She would confer to the Southern Wind the cruel taunts of a porcelain horse on her past mistakes and the apparent retribution that would thrust her heart into a state of absolute agony.

But, she would always and incessantly whisper to the Northern Wind the sweet lullabies and the romantic rhymes of a boy who would eventually liberate her from the desolate circle of unkind spirits.

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Art by Edward Gorey from "The Gashlycrumb Tinies", 1963.