Full Magic Dwells With Him

[to C.S. Lewis

and to Dr. Louis Markos for the intensified magic of Lewis --reinterpreted}]

above all, to Our Lord and King...

full magic dwells with Him

the greening of the stars

the rose unclosed bright as the infant snows

and rainbow beading rain all

diamond shot on the windowpanes

we will load thickly with

Christmas stencils, holly flamed

or muted green of  pine;the bells we

cannot name, the faery foam of Time

that's disappearing here

and funneled where?

on dreaming's other side?

the back of the mirrors?

in the King's library under lock and key?

though Rose be

crimson as the heart yet stilled

we are by the perfumes spilling

silverly on the winds:

His secret lilies.

dwell apart

and so must we

to see beyond seeming.

He glides there too

adown the merest molecules of light

is flight itself oh fly from us never

for I fear the night is coming when it's

dream on dream suspended: in This,

our Heaven and our wilderness until

beyond the window sills of all our dreaming

full magic is forever upon us and more

than Once Upon...

mary angela douglas 25 october 2014