Floretti Of The Hidden Stars Who Has

floretti of the hidden stars who has

carved you into my heart

that the blue and the gold of you

should not be turned away

from the fine fair fairytale doorstep

swept clean of sorrows.

for all the fairytales are truth

down to the least detail.

This I learned to say.

let the debris of exile

castaway, on a ship of no devising

be only the ghost ship sailing away from you,

Beauty in exile,

even after Christ!

floretti floretti I murmured to

bright children sleeping

to the ghost of their tears

in the curve of your canticle, moonlight;

Your broken silver candle still not quenched

though many have thought otherwise:

stringing their Mays like pearls and

forgetting the Jeweler.

mary angela douglas 16 february 2014