Yum Yum Said The Monster

yum yum said the monster.

I will eat you up.

but the poet kept scribbling

trying to keep up

with the broken rainbow pieces

scattered everywhere by his better angels.

yum yum said the monster

here I come

be scared and drop everything

but the poet remembered

time is fleeting anyway and

kept on scribbling, dipping his pen

in light, in golden molten light

though he was not warm.

though she had no light

but the garret window-light

and when the clouds passed over

inner light.

munch munch cried the monster

craving attention

but the poet never heard

because the singing of the birds

in the tree of his soul could not

be sacrificed

to feed the gobble gobble

of the Liar

crunching on starlight

and miniature roses,

intransigent little children

in love with the Beginning

mary angela douglas 20 march 2014