Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Mixed Up Meringue Of Clouds And Posies

[to my Grandmother Lucy who will know what I mean]

books fell out of the clouds and posies:
this was my dream and dream was home
and always you were there

telling us stories on the veranda...
o.k. we had no veranda.
I made that up. it's a story.

it's a story. it's a dream
it's a fable; it's a dress with no seams
made out of clouds, the pink and the blue

and freshly hemmed, and just for you!

we're back to clouds now, are we queried
my angels; you know what I mean!
most certainly we do they said in silver ripples.

I kept rummaging through their attics
till the rose lights fell on me from the great heights
oh I'm a rose window now I sighed

from pure happiness.
won't the kids at recess
be jealous...

mary angela douglas 4 august 2015

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