Perfumes Smiled From The Flowers

perfumes smiled from the flowers
on your finer days.
and you were always finding

crystal things to say.
I remember these things
whenever I'm farther away

and when the afternoon subsides
into a winter I can't yet see
because I seem, remembering

perfumes that smiled from the flowers
someone finer then,
remembering how it was at home.

mary angela douglas 19 november 2015