Pippi Longstocking

    Is it Spanish?

No, Swedish.

       What’s that?

Where Loki came from.

Writing about Ragnarök

in the purple octopi

     of a gel pen, it’s the end

       of the world and a gigantic wolf

is going to swallow

     the coagulated sun whole.

Myth, wish fulfillment. He broke

   the strongest chains ever built.

He was strong.

He won.

I’m not strong.

I don’t win.

Pippi is strong too.

And smart.

Sit with me, little one,

inside this mansion

     of June hieroglyphics, inside

the belles lettres of fluttering

     paper-doll tomorrrows,

and mourn

    how we never lived.