we'll put the stars together
in gingerbread weather
just in time
pasting the gilt backs
back and no glue coming through
just, only .the shine
so that cosmologists wonder
why are the skies so smooth
while we wonder why
(that's Jane and Michael)
they always do whenever we eat custard;
small thanks to you, Mary Poppins
with cherrries on top
and you hear the plip plop of
the rose copper coins coming through
the wishing wells and flung by you
to perfection there
how the wish came true
that you would be read to from
the pan where the gingerbread shop
had chccolate drops until late afternoon
on the avenue where it wasn't the day before
anymore anymore
we were on some golden shore
sugar fingers coming off and then, renewed
we bought dark cherry cough drops
needing them for school
and the blue came through kind of peeling
onto the other side so that the cosmologists
were reeling from some kind of feeling
it was all pasted on in the first place
just as we thought.
o lemon drops we said
you never did
it's we took the lid off
the mystical candy jar
in our fun with the peppermint bark
tomorrow, no more rain drops
we'll see the sun.from the park
she said briskly...brusquely
while we closed our eyes to
the linen stars wrinkling
in the summer skies.
mary angela douglas 11 march 2018
in gingerbread weather
just in time
pasting the gilt backs
back and no glue coming through
just, only .the shine
so that cosmologists wonder
why are the skies so smooth
while we wonder why
(that's Jane and Michael)
they always do whenever we eat custard;
small thanks to you, Mary Poppins
with cherrries on top
and you hear the plip plop of
the rose copper coins coming through
the wishing wells and flung by you
to perfection there
how the wish came true
that you would be read to from
the pan where the gingerbread shop
had chccolate drops until late afternoon
on the avenue where it wasn't the day before
anymore anymore
we were on some golden shore
sugar fingers coming off and then, renewed
we bought dark cherry cough drops
needing them for school
and the blue came through kind of peeling
onto the other side so that the cosmologists
were reeling from some kind of feeling
it was all pasted on in the first place
just as we thought.
o lemon drops we said
you never did
it's we took the lid off
the mystical candy jar
in our fun with the peppermint bark
tomorrow, no more rain drops
we'll see the sun.from the park
she said briskly...brusquely
while we closed our eyes to
the linen stars wrinkling
in the summer skies.
mary angela douglas 11 march 2018
