The Map In Ice Cream Colours

how fervently we wished

that the map in ice cream colours

had been the real map

of the World.

the one marked for Treasure.

and Treasure would be found

and then we would sit down

on the checkered cloth for a picnic.

huge cookies, all around

with molten chocolate in the sun

when wishes were young.

and the ice cream map melting

and we are laughing

by infinite streams

in the tall grasslands

and the grass, leaning upwards
into the stars

mary angela douglas 15 april 2015