Park Benches and Polaroids

emma

once upon a time

there were two girls

who made up worlds

in the playground.

characters,

stories,

whirlwinds of ideas,

stealing aesthetics and plots from

the pages of books

flashes of color in film

and from the fabric of the music

that spilled out

under bits of dialogue

that they quoted and

invented their own from.

they weren't always princesses.

they weren't always queens.

they were:

mages

vampires

elves

themselves

wizards

girls with magical powers;

sometimes 

they pretended to be bullies

sometimes 

they were their favorite characters

woven from endless tales,

into their own

as they phased in and out of love

with each series.

they were heroines,

their kingdoms were on the peeling play structures

and the trees overlooking the houses

lined up side by side for miles

and no one could

ever take that away.