The Green Tricycle: Issue #2: Myth: Teresa White

Issue 2:
Myth
Teresa White

The Lady or The Tiger

Blazed with stripes,
the tiger is turning himself to butter,
lapping the air with hunger
as he chases his tail.

The lady, draped in white
with gold cord braided
through her hair,
paces her stone cell.

He is a Christ lover,
spectacle for the crowd.
He imagines lying on reed mats
with the lady.
Her hair is undone; an ocean of relief
flows over him.

"I have been a faithful servant,"
he prays. When asked to choose
he is busy
counting pebbles in the dust
with his bare feet.

~Teresa White

Widely published online and in print, Teresa's first book of verse In What Furnace? by Two Steps Publishing is now available. Email.