Painted Ephemera Of The Rose

we'll drive our cloud-sheep

forward

into mists of the rose:

the one of legend

the one you can't dismiss

out-of-hand

over a city of trees

let it rain down jewels

anyway, on my flowered hat

if the neighbors don't mind

and downtown artists

sip black coffee

and dreamy cream so

out of the long-ago

on a summer day

in Winston-Salem

a little girl

in the Library

painted a swirl of rose

like the rose itself

and was happy...

mary angela douglas 2 august 2010

[on the visuallibraries.com seminar ("Leave Your Mark") in Winston-Salem, North Carolina presented by

Dr. Marueen O'Neill and Claire Sambrook

July 2010 at the Forsyth County Central Library.]