Demeter's Lament

for my Grandmother and my Mama, always...


she cried flowers wanting her daughter back
Persephone,she wept
into the clouds

till it snowed forever.
can grief be measured
grief like this

pre Christian angels
sang and then broke down
throughout the universe the sound

Persephone Persephone.
where are you

and the moon behind the clouds
the ground completely frozen now...

Persephone.

mary angela douglas 14 january 2017.