*GATOR SPRINGS GAZETTE
a literary journal of the fictional persuasion
ALLIGATOR CHORUS

IN FOLKTALES
Corey Mesler

“It’s dark on purpose/so just listen.”
                    Lawrence Raab

    In folktales
    the hero loses something,
    a limb, an eye,
    his courage.
    And there’s always a woman,
    evil or only unlucky,
    whose life entwines with
    his and either
    chaos or contentment follows.
    The hero is always male.
    The woman is always female.
    In folktales
    there is much to ponder,
    coming as they do from a past
    so long passed that
    truths cling to the tale
    like succubi.

© Corey Mesler

Corey Mesler (resolemcrey@yahoo.com) has published in numerous journals and anthologies. His novel, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue, was released in 2002. He also has a number of poetry chapbooks available. In 2005, his second novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon will be released

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