song is this radiance
that keeps breaking off in our hands
in icicled tones
semitones and it is spring, lovely spring
a Hans Andersen one with crystal swans
or like Yeats, with the red rose borders
and you hoard books as if they were gold
as if, but they are or amber or
the way that God hoards stars
and the icicle languages, the blue gold tones
are breaking off and it is as though
Thy hands were weeping
words
when the ink smears
and tears crease the page.
mary angela douglas 2 january 2018
that keeps breaking off in our hands
in icicled tones
semitones and it is spring, lovely spring
a Hans Andersen one with crystal swans
or like Yeats, with the red rose borders
and you hoard books as if they were gold
as if, but they are or amber or
the way that God hoards stars
and the icicle languages, the blue gold tones
are breaking off and it is as though
Thy hands were weeping
words
when the ink smears
and tears crease the page.
mary angela douglas 2 january 2018
