Incoming Weather

what have you forgotten that you used to know
did you ask blue windowpanes
snows have drifted through the night

dream noting the flight of drifting birds
are you their current have you heard
sad angels ask

being somewhat far from home
their weathervanes in a whirl

small diamonds rage and is this snow blindness
your prisoners ask you in the freeze
the orange groves lost

but its all on a need to know basis.
if you see in the middle or on either side
the optometric slides

presenting to you the view or what's left of it.
this is where visions died the marker says
but the snows cover it all.

mary angela douglas  17 november 2017