children will turn out with small bouquets
in their Sunday best
we will drink rosy punch and be festive
with the dolls
celebrating all the small
collecting blue marbles
with their encapsulated clouds
see, we have the captured the clouds:
the great expeditionary forces that we are
and we've only been reading a little while
forming our letters in the snow languages
bequeathed to us each Christmas
why are you writing this
say the lost critics not finding their footing
because of joy I pirouette and say
a Columbine's Columbine
because I like to remember old toys
and the Golden Age, time ticked off
with dime store watches
because I live in that country
and that country only.
mary angela douglas 1 august 2017
in their Sunday best
we will drink rosy punch and be festive
with the dolls
celebrating all the small
collecting blue marbles
with their encapsulated clouds
see, we have the captured the clouds:
the great expeditionary forces that we are
and we've only been reading a little while
forming our letters in the snow languages
bequeathed to us each Christmas
why are you writing this
say the lost critics not finding their footing
because of joy I pirouette and say
a Columbine's Columbine
because I like to remember old toys
and the Golden Age, time ticked off
with dime store watches
because I live in that country
and that country only.
mary angela douglas 1 august 2017
