Waving Goodbye To Ray Bradbury Again

 [waving goodbye to Ray Bradbury again;remembering my own work too:HYMN TO GOD MY GOD IN MY RETREATS;THE LITTLE SETBACKS

(waving goodbye again to Ray Bradbury, after his 100th birthday...

remembering my first steps into poetry as into snow walking blind)===================================

to flowers whose names I've never known

wildflowers in the Himalayas

crab apple in the Milky Way

recently christened stars, Alpha Centura or Mars

sun flares already finished with their spectrums

and the sunflower husks shed

while I was waiting for the school bus. amid the maple leaves.

let there be this understanding between us

may there be wild orchids in the desert of my retreats

and little setbacks:

i still will count the opal names of God exquisitely to myself

forgetting all else, all other names

and remember the coolness of evening winds

the jade winds of april

the songs I laid down at Your feet

when I was only fifteen.

mary angela douglas 25 august 2020