everything then belonged to our backyard
complete with even our very own moon!
and you too clouds we saw you every day
after school as though you were waiting for us
until the bell rang before you started drifting again.
I didn't know you died when it rained
and that it wasn't really you the next day.
I always thought it was you, only, maybe a little pinker
a lot more fanciful.
oh you had your moods we knew that from
watching The Wizard of Oz every Easter on T.V.
and timed our chores so that tornadoes would
never come. we'd made a pact with God
that if we finished our Saturday chores at lightening speed
there'd be no cyclones. at least, not in Little Rock.
I wonder if we were the only ones who thought of you
that way: light, yet constant, still, only you
in your souffle and lovely in any weather
will you be for some other children one day,
when we're disappearing, too?
mary angela douglas 3 november 2015
complete with even our very own moon!
and you too clouds we saw you every day
after school as though you were waiting for us
until the bell rang before you started drifting again.
I didn't know you died when it rained
and that it wasn't really you the next day.
I always thought it was you, only, maybe a little pinker
a lot more fanciful.
oh you had your moods we knew that from
watching The Wizard of Oz every Easter on T.V.
and timed our chores so that tornadoes would
never come. we'd made a pact with God
that if we finished our Saturday chores at lightening speed
there'd be no cyclones. at least, not in Little Rock.
I wonder if we were the only ones who thought of you
that way: light, yet constant, still, only you
in your souffle and lovely in any weather
will you be for some other children one day,
when we're disappearing, too?
mary angela douglas 3 november 2015
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