Finest Marbles
She came home with this story
about how F. had stolen apples
from the poison orchard,
and how he made her taste one -
which made her sick in her stomach.
But when the party arrived
in search for F.
all they could find were
the ashes of the fireplace
around which she had told him
little lies and robbed him
of his finest marbles.
He came home
in tears, and for years
he believed
that A. would curse him -
but her threats were as hollow
as her soul,
which barely exists.