because you sang of the moon impearled
as if you held all pearls in your hands
they banished you from the Music Room
and exiled you to a foreign land
where strange birds caw from the chinaberry trees.
but all your songs come back to me
come back to me on a variable wind
and I transcribe from the tone deaf world
scorned beauty's skirls.
and witness the shining retinue
the gold leafed trees
in a variable wind.
mary angela douglas 9 november 2018
as if you held all pearls in your hands
they banished you from the Music Room
and exiled you to a foreign land
where strange birds caw from the chinaberry trees.
but all your songs come back to me
come back to me on a variable wind
and I transcribe from the tone deaf world
scorned beauty's skirls.
and witness the shining retinue
the gold leafed trees
in a variable wind.
mary angela douglas 9 november 2018
