It's Like Cherry Quartz

it's like cherry quartz one corner of the sky
and you imagine one branch of your favorite tree
could cloud sweep there so

that little candies would fall out of
the cloud pinata
and why shouldn't it be

it's your imagination can't you see
we are kind of talking about
in Middle C beginnings

and not evasive at all

not clattering out in a coded atmosphere
such as when you were working
and there was no reprieve

so let the entire sky be cherry quartz
let candies rain down forever and forever
let all the children be good.

mary angela douglas 31 january 2018