She Dreams In Philosophy, Making The Best Of Things

lost notebooks make the best dreams
old composition books misplaced.
manuscripts disappearing on trains

or left out in the garden rains

then novelists begin again
then sometimes losing is a kind of friend
when the second version is better.

and more what you had in mind
before it was all erased.
and more what you had in mind

in the first place.

mary angela douglas 6 march 2018