it is astonishing the Princess said
seeing the bent twig flower after all
through cool disdain
through monkey puzzle maze
through pea-soup rains and the
sticky sun; whole summers without
lemonade.
sipping the air of home I would
have run in pale green skirts
forever; not even in fairytales
that kind of freedom shines.
see how the bent twig flowered after all
perfumed as all the rest,
but deeply different.
I pick this one for my portrait
done in tearose chalks:
the center of the nosegay-
mainstay of my heart
through cool disdain.
mary angela douglas 26 february 2014
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