before dawn climbs high

a prequel, of sorts, to Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti. 

Jeanie, the cautionary tale, here explores the moment she partook in the goblins' wares, and her downfall and death before the first snow of winter. of course no one is a cautionary tale, and such a girl deserves her moment in the spotlight, to live more than she dies.

cws for death, weird victorian explorations of queerness-as-a-religious-experience through incestuous subtext (the original poem goes even harder than i did), misogyny and queerphobia, and severe depression.