Bread and Jam for Frances

• Verses Based on the book’s title: Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Lillian Hoban  (prompt at Miss Rumphius Effect)

Bread baking warms the room

And brings the children round

Jam sweetens so the spoon

For us to spread around

Frances, don’t you dally,

Come soon and bring Sally!

Baba Yaga II

artist, Dmitri Mitrokhin

 Not Wanting to be Forgotten

Baba Yaga makes red spiders of all her toes

And pale little worms escape from her nose

Hairy all over she makes of her belly and

For eyes she lets seep a grey yellow jelly

If you don’t find this enough for a scare

She twirls in the air and makes snakes of her hair

 For Baba Yaga wants only to tease you,

She is sad if such frights fail to please you.