All You Have to Do Is Believe, by Lenora Rain-Lee Good

All You Have to Do Is Believe ...

after Gargoyles, by Michael Parkes (Spain, b. USA) 1985
https://borsini-burr.com/artists/michael-parkes/gargoyles  
 
Behind the fearsome gargoyle
guard of her father’s castle,
stands girl in long
yellow summer dress, teddy
bear forgotten, rests
by her feet. By tail
of the sitting gargoyle
a glass bowl, near full
of soapy water, into which
she dips a small, bent wire
blows perfect, 
delicate
bubbles into summer sky.
 
Fetch, she whispers,
taps the stone gargoyle on
his shoulder. Carved to protect
the castle, the king, the girl
he doesn’t think, doesn’t argue,
leaps from the marble ball
on which he crouched for ages,
stretches his body, his arm
for the floating bubble
unaware he isn’t alive
unaware he is sculpted of stone
unaware he can’t
                               float like the bubble
                                                                   he reaches, 
                                                                                        reaches.

Lenora Rain-Lee Good

Lenora Rain-Lee Good lives near the Columbia River in Kennewick, WA. Her latest chapbook, Saying Goodbye to Thomas, published by Finishing Line Press has just been released. She writes fiction, radio dramas, and her love—poetry. Her poetry has appeared in online and print anthologies, including Dos Gatos Press, Quill and Parchment, Fixed and Free, and Cirque Journal. Her favourite poetry quote: “A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.” ~ Robert Heinlein