for my sister, Sharon...
perhaps in cherry velvet you would appear
a sudden illumination
practicing your Czereny as if it were Beethoven.
or in a room arranging the roses
asking again if your book report
on the paintings of Rosa Bonheur
was long enough yet.
we watched movies desultorily
on Saturday, the ones on T.V.
cooking up strawberry jello for dessert:
the historical ones with Errol Flynn
(resignedly)
when truly it seemed the costumes
were made of grade school felt.
and did all we could
to ignore the biology test on Monday,
memorizing the bones half heartedly.
I can't say that ever helped me
except that in the word tibula
we found a certain tintinnabulation
like Christmas glass bells.
nevermore
we thought going out the door
with our summer report cards
would we ever have to study that again
or the angel take off her hat
and fan herself
as our mother did
on the high school stage
in late May.
bringing down the house.
mary angela douglas 5 december 2017.
perhaps in cherry velvet you would appear
a sudden illumination
practicing your Czereny as if it were Beethoven.
or in a room arranging the roses
asking again if your book report
on the paintings of Rosa Bonheur
was long enough yet.
we watched movies desultorily
on Saturday, the ones on T.V.
cooking up strawberry jello for dessert:
the historical ones with Errol Flynn
(resignedly)
when truly it seemed the costumes
were made of grade school felt.
and did all we could
to ignore the biology test on Monday,
memorizing the bones half heartedly.
I can't say that ever helped me
except that in the word tibula
we found a certain tintinnabulation
like Christmas glass bells.
nevermore
we thought going out the door
with our summer report cards
would we ever have to study that again
or the angel take off her hat
and fan herself
as our mother did
on the high school stage
in late May.
bringing down the house.
mary angela douglas 5 december 2017.
