Midas

Once upon a time, oh, an impossible

number of years ago, a greedy old king

with a magic touch,

turned everything he loved to gold.

Piles and piles of it, people of it, all

Immobile

Gold.

It was with a great glow of satisfaction he

surveyed its solidity, solidarity, passivity.

Transfixed by petrified projections

from his wild brain, once upon a time,

he stood, alone, musing the perfect quiet of it

About the author

name: Judy Daniel

Judy Daniel is a poet and fiction writer who, at age six, was delighted by stories at the Riverview Library’s Saturday morning Children Hour. After teaching and writing in England and Spain, she returned to Minnesota to become a founding member of  Poets-in-the School (now The Loft).