we will stitch the moonlight to the snows
and come and go as we please
making up little stories until they
turn into snow and the snow
covers up all our mistakes
and wrong answers
so that all huffing and puffing
will come to a standstill
in the village with formerly green roofs
where we were always graded unfairly
and you will look out the lattice windows
the lattice windows as if they were clouds
and no one will say to us
it's getting too loud in here much less, the birds
because we will whisper everything we learned
and tread lightly in the time remaining
as though we knew everything by heart;
to keep from breaking apart.
mary angela douglas 26 january 2018
and come and go as we please
making up little stories until they
turn into snow and the snow
covers up all our mistakes
and wrong answers
so that all huffing and puffing
will come to a standstill
in the village with formerly green roofs
where we were always graded unfairly
and you will look out the lattice windows
the lattice windows as if they were clouds
and no one will say to us
it's getting too loud in here much less, the birds
because we will whisper everything we learned
and tread lightly in the time remaining
as though we knew everything by heart;
to keep from breaking apart.
mary angela douglas 26 january 2018
