We Would Have Gone On Living

the moon would be listening to the lemon flower song
or would it be the other way round
and we would wear dresses of willow green

and stand by the willows and slip smooth stones into the waters
this would go into an art song and we would hang our harps there

or be translated into all the 500 words for snow
because eventually of course the pale petals would start raining down
as they always do when I am thinking about another world

where peace would have flowered
and we would have gone on living.

mary angela douglas 10 february 2018