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Fortune Cookies

Blackwidow and bluedaughter will precede a bronze fortune. Wait ninety-one dawns.

Try aulic apples and eco-similes when up a tree. On the next moon's round you will hear a new note.

A fixed star burns the edges of frayed identity. Look underground for knockout denouement.

Swarming doubt surrounds your final forfeit. Your aura is now in orbit. Wear its disguise.

Learn the Erynnian language of thorns. Make a pact with chaos. From then on you won't care.

The faces in the mirror have learned to talk. If you listen they will slash your past, ignite your future.

In ten days your eyes will see a glaive. Take it as a sign of promise. Your beauty will explode.

Mix wine with semen and ectoplasm. Throw it out. You shall be richly rewarded.

Wild rapture spins over your personal landscape. Do not hold your breath in the fire. This sign is bliss.

Entrance to Hell demands grit. After nine days in the ashes you will be walking on air.

Go mad and you will not become truly insane. Tomorrow you will be chosen.

—Dorothea Tanning



Dorothea Tanning's paintings have been exhibited at Centre Pompidou, the Tate Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art.
Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, and The Yale Review.

Originally Published in December 2001/January 2002 issue of the Boston Review



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