a dress of apricot in the marbled shade
she could have worn;
happy in an antique legend,
the one embellished and cherry-sprigged
in the children's storybook;
the one they coloured in
as though she could be
more beautiful to them.
a dress of apricot trimmed
in pale green to be worn
when gazing at the wind
that shears the leaves that shears the leaves
of all the golden trees
in or out of a fondest dream
a dress of apricot
a gleam in the stream of infinite song
she could have sung
but I live off the page and far away
she said
and where the apricot moon is splashing
on the children's faces in the afternoon
when they are sleeping
and don't know yet what Time is
mary angela douglas 13 november 2013
P.S. "Shade" refers to shade under the shade tree on "marbled" paper usually used in expensive, handcrafted books or on the effect of light and shadow on any scene in impressionistic style paintings being permanently painted so as to resemble marble in the sense of being now: beyond evanescence...
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