Poetry
Words by
The Slow Queen
Laurinda Lind
About the poem
When I learned about the theme for this issue, I read a 40-page online original out of curiosity. I am interested in fairy tales and myths from a dream-analysis perspective, and after having studied Bruno Bettelheim in a college class. I didn’t think I would actually submit to TT, but this tale blew me away. I may now have a thing for Hans Christian Andersen—this story was so rich in images that I couldn’t resist playing with them, and my poem considers the character Gerda as a composite of the other strong female figures in the story.