Stairway to Wise Woman Faerie Cottage I found it when I was eight Spent many an hour inside Learning the wizen ways of a sorceress Wise Woman confided she was looking for a novice to be trained to replace her when the time came The time was apparently this week For the stairway had disappeared for fifty years Today it is back. I eagerly skip up the steps Ready to see Wise Woman. Her flesh is gone, but her spirit is all over the cottage Reminding me, and teaching me I am amazed that I remember her magic And how to produce light and love in others Wise Woman magic, taught by the queen of the woods, My new title, whispered quietly among the elves and faeries