Why is Baba Yaga knocking at my door?

My house is in the city, not deep in the forests floor.

Why carry she that basket?

Is it to gather up my eggs?

And carry them back to her hasty nest that stands on chicken’s legs?

What voice she uses that crackles with age?

Surely she does not think me a sage

If I sit quiet while stirring my stew,

Perhaps my company no more she’ll pursue.

But the smell of her pipe and the creak of my chair,

Tells me she’s settled for a long time right here.

But why has Baba Yaga come when I’m alone?

“If you’d answer your door,dear,” she grated, “I’ve come t’take ya home.”

The heaven’s kaleidoscope windows open to cover the blue

The calliope sings the night song in an ageless tune

Peacocks pay twilights ransom of rich pastel hues

That firefly the indigo with wishes star bright true

A moon-shaped chariot praises ascension of flight

With borrowed provision to illuminate the night

As the wolf lifts her head, her howling pack meal tight

Her prey within her grasp, her children in her sight

The night witch heeds the turning wheel spinet

By earth, by air, by fire, air, spirit

She stirs her wares, skyclad she dances within it.

Satisfied she ties off her charms without intent to rescind it!