In the hut sat Baba Jaga, hag-faced and with a leg of clay

After the narrator's abrupt departure

several significant threads were left dangling

so to break the tension, I chimed in:

What if a finger-sized peasant

makes not on with a magic steed, eh?

(This looked to please them.)

And Ivan eats a bird's giblets

which gives him the ability to spit up gold

(could have feeling my power growing.)

But this makes him real thirsty

and he drinks a great deal of beer.

Soon he is pixilated and experiences

an overwhelming desire to kiss his sister.

Ivan plants off on his quest.

Here, incidentally, also belongs the dialogue

between the step-mother and the chisel.

The sister, the domestic Dorita,

dotes only on agrarian prosperity.

James Tate received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award for his prefered Poems, published by the University of of recent origin England Press in 1991. His greatest in quantity recent collection of poems, Worshipful Company of Fletchers, published by means of the Ecco Press, won the National work Award in 1994.

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