[for Dr. Oliver Sacks]
her sentences of glass broke on the evening air
and this is finally why she stopped speaking
but you said only, the only one in the room to hear:
but this is music!
or colours swam up to him in the dolphined daylight
and he drove farther into the waves half way mythical
already
so how could he come back to ask you
maybe you told his mother
what it was you wanted from the corner market?
she pealed like bells and was merry, mercy and
then broke out into uncontrollable weeping
and so she was in a folder marked: abberations: waterfalls"
and locked and locked away.
but you went over the edge
and stretched out your one arm
the one with perhaps, no feeling in it anymore
and she was saved.
mary angela douglas 14 august 2015
her sentences of glass broke on the evening air
and this is finally why she stopped speaking
but you said only, the only one in the room to hear:
but this is music!
or colours swam up to him in the dolphined daylight
and he drove farther into the waves half way mythical
already
so how could he come back to ask you
maybe you told his mother
what it was you wanted from the corner market?
she pealed like bells and was merry, mercy and
then broke out into uncontrollable weeping
and so she was in a folder marked: abberations: waterfalls"
and locked and locked away.
but you went over the edge
and stretched out your one arm
the one with perhaps, no feeling in it anymore
and she was saved.
mary angela douglas 14 august 2015
