Last time she climbed a beanstalk.

she found an egg halfway up and watched

Pieces of shell fall ten thousand feet

Into the eyes of an axeholding boy

clung wildly when the beanstalk rotated,

Penetrated, and became a tree

where the boy once stood

huddled together with the axholding boy

trapped by it's roots as the newborn glittering thing

coaxed a giant’s unsuspecting favorites to share

an apple.