Be Certain To Ask The Doctor All Your Questions While You're There

are our diseases frozen tears

I wondered in the clarity of night

and before dawn

with sleep delayed

and i could not see

I only felt

The Moon.

are our afflictions grief delayed

so unremitted sadness looms and lodges

in the odd cell in the crevice near the heart

in the marrow are there unshed tears and do they harden

crystalizing years on years

does it snow there and will the ice age be prolonged

mary angela douglas 30 july 2020