all the names I have held in my heart,
cherishing, so they could not depart;
fending off the days of erosions in
the picture dictionary with its beginning
of apples, or oranges, of the lemon coloured,
the clementine ways; the strawberry cones
intact, the major holidays:
oh Christmas firs and the snowy scenes beyond
what could have been in the tangle of Christmas bulbs unearthed
with the tinsel still in stray corners
of the universe
and the surprise of angels suddenly appearing
in the night skies
when the world whispered, incorrectly,
"Doom"
mary angela douglas 9 july 2016
cherishing, so they could not depart;
fending off the days of erosions in
of apples, or oranges, of the lemon coloured,
the clementine ways; the strawberry cones
intact, the major holidays:
oh Christmas firs and the snowy scenes beyond
what could have been in the tangle of Christmas bulbs unearthed
with the tinsel still in stray corners
of the universe
and the surprise of angels suddenly appearing
in the night skies
when the world whispered, incorrectly,
"Doom"
mary angela douglas 9 july 2016
