Sash of Cherry Velvet And The Storybook Shade

cherishing cherries and the colouring book cerise
of counting backwards underneath the summer trees
of the floating off of the continent of Green Ginger

or we see like sparrows the Little Lame Prince
arise from his castle on the Traveling Cloak
and grow enamoured with world sorrow.

you are tomorrow's King chirp the sparrows
is this a warning we wondered
he cannot translate

death will translate him.
we turn the page
and all is green again

we laugh in our summer dresses 
as if we were the sun
and they are bordered with cherries

bordered with cherries,
every one.

mary angela douglas 24 january 2018