Fairy Slippers Found

I’m always looking for evidence for the wee folk who wander around with us. I found that evidence in the wildflowers on the shrub-steppe where the big sagebrush grows.

It’s the lupine, I think the Lupinus leucophyllus, though I am not sure. I snapped a few pictures, of course, and that’s when I found it, the evidence. Take a look at the above zoomed in picture. Do you see them? It’s the dancing slippers of the fairies, growing in a living closet, just waiting for the May Day dance when the fairies scoop them up, upon their feet and spend the night dancing in the moonlight. 

I’m sure if you truly believe and walk lightly on the land to protect the fairy’s homes, that on the eve before, during, and after May Day, if you hold very still, and breathe slowly in and out just before midnight, that you will see a stream of fairies dance. 

You will let me know, won’t you?

Fairy Slippers Found

Search
the hills
filled in spring
for the blooming
white lupin scattered
among the “big sagebrush;”
Did you know that on it grows
a flowering raceme upon
which pedicels open to tiny
fairy slippers for May Day’s fairy dance?

SHERI EDWARDS
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
POETIC FORM: ETHEREE
4/16/26

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