Monday, May 25, 2015

Dorothy Nears The Land Of Dainty China

[an episode in the book "The Wizard of Oz", though
not expanded on in the film, I think", as well,
on Cervantes tale, "The Man of Glass"]

will words break here in the air
as you speak them?
dorothy wondered then

approaching the village of china.
how to speak with such
breakable residents.

it looks slightly bleak
she almost said to
her little dog

in Porcelain.


should I paint rosebuds
on the breeze
to put them at their ease?

forget me nots! she
almost cried
thinking of home.

step with your satin footsteps
only here.
or they will tremble as

though it thundered.
(learn to) 
breathe like. snows.

mary angela douglas 25 may 2015

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