I Remembered Spanish Music

I remembered Spanish music
rubied thread through an emerald jungle
a bird singing in another language

a lost bird singing
a rubied thread in its beak
is skimming over emerald jungles

and through the thickets of sleep
and it is singing one note
and the word is always

forlorn some kind of sarabande

and it carries the burden with wings
of so many notes spilling down
a crystal sound breaking apart into flechas

over the vast unknowable continents
of the heart.

mary angela douglas 10 february 2018