the marmalade measures of the sun
the coloured chalkboard summer sums
we thought were ours till kingdom come
the metronome's gaze
upon the musical page, gum starred
and this is Where You Are, on planet earth
the piano lid open to the neighborhood
small scars kissed new
and much imagined from the few notes graced,
the blosoming of the keys
when scales were young
the Dreamery of our
Grandmother's Liebestraum
I have kept in my box of charms
where the ballerina twirls
in her pink bit of tulle
and can't take arms
because of the Golden Rule
against the vanishing or iris skies
and all the shreds of hows and whys
we knew back then
the doll patch silk
the chocolate milk
when every wind through the screen door
chimed
and anything reminds me now
that was where
I lived somehow
the only place I ever would
though Time itself
has long since raced me
to the end of the block
mary angela douglas 24 july 2017
the coloured chalkboard summer sums
we thought were ours till kingdom come
the metronome's gaze
upon the musical page, gum starred
and this is Where You Are, on planet earth
the piano lid open to the neighborhood
small scars kissed new
and much imagined from the few notes graced,
the blosoming of the keys
when scales were young
the Dreamery of our
Grandmother's Liebestraum
I have kept in my box of charms
where the ballerina twirls
in her pink bit of tulle
and can't take arms
because of the Golden Rule
against the vanishing or iris skies
and all the shreds of hows and whys
we knew back then
the doll patch silk
the chocolate milk
when every wind through the screen door
chimed
and anything reminds me now
that was where
I lived somehow
the only place I ever would
though Time itself
has long since raced me
to the end of the block
mary angela douglas 24 july 2017
