How Do You Feel About Rainbows

how do you feel about rainbows
in someone else's sky?
or the river going by their door

bypassing you in your landlocked dream.
until you remember you like forests,
not seas

and then are you happy again?
and it seems good news to you
that first a crimson then a gold leaf

flutters down on you.
on you!
and that you get to be here

when it happens.

mary angela douglas 3 november 2015