Friday, July 31, 2020

In The Spilled Cream Of The Day

in the spilled cream of the day
in the picture book of how we felt then
listening to Mary O' Hara sing as delicate

as the harp she played on, the Gaelic songs
I could not understand except by heart
by heart and the jeweled grass singing

in the early dews I remember the shrine
of my childhood, the blue glaze and how I prayed
before I knew that time was less permanent

than the dews

mary angela douglas 31 july 2020

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