Khaleesi Says

In this story, she is fire-born:

knee-deep in the shuddering world.

In this story, she knows no fear,

for what is fractured is a near-bitten star,

a false-bearing tree,

or a dishonest wind.

In this story, fear is a house gone dry.

Fear is not being a woman.

I’m no ordinary woman, she says.

My dreams come true.

And she says and she is

and I say, yes, give me that.