Monday, March 22, 2010

Goodbye Again, In Emeralds

the wobbly weather vane comes to rest
oh bottle-green world I can't pretend
to know who I am without you


anymore


the glass of your towers totters and then,

rights itself
(I don't know how)

but I'm too far to go back, now-

either way,
left in-between

counting the wonders remaining

to one side, the prairie stars

and farther ahead, forever unwinding-

the vast plains of emerald, nonpareille-


mary angela douglas 10 february 2010

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