how could you ever think it would be easy
to be everlasting reading the story
in the butterscotch sunlight
daylight streaming through the one window
working the mermaid fractions, sums
too big for childhood
might as well count the stars we said
and we began our lifetime's work of it.
or find the casket letters of the queen
redeemed.
or paint in miniature how it fell to you back then
when the Christmas snows begin
and you're tuned to the varicoloured music of it
weren't you
turning the page toward the forever ending
mary angela douglas 7 may 2017
