a very tall woman with a tiny head

the Aem'goshëm appeared
as a very tall woman
walking through the
small town of Hillstocke
in the early morning mist
a cold September morn
wearing a dress
an indigo hue
not common around here
on her shoulders sat a tiny bulbous head
with elmleafsized ears and almost no hair
flakes of ashes seemed to swirl around her
her feet were the size of hens
she left a feeling in her wake
like the sound of a churchbell
for a funeral and a wedding
and a mysterious question
wordless and unsettling
she was never seen in or near
the town of Hillstocke ever again
tho from elsewhere far and away
came claims of her appearance
farmer Jún said to have seen her
trudge along the edge
of his sunflower field
one summer evening in August
Sister Fatma of the Soëlmund cloister
said she heard a mournful howl
from the garden in the courtyard
and when she got there
the bushes the trees the stonebenches
and even the fowntaine
was covered in what looked like soot
one of the Farmweld children
told of how they saw a small hillock
move in the valley of Òsidho
and follow the river Kwenn
disappearing around the bend
towards Òkhaltarhum
young master Wilk
said he saw a woman tall as a tree
wearing a dress of bluebells
pass through the walls
of a building in Cantonbury
tho his grandfather
called it a Hollowegramm
not to be lingered on
not in mind nor speech
more than needs be