Tuesday, November 10, 2020

This Brief Moment Of Consolation

(for Judy Collins, singing Joni Mitchell's "Clouds')


to those who suffer from unwritten rules

from made up this instant just add water regulations

because they do not like your face and question

your regeneration think of clouds, mounds of them

ice cream sung and wished for like the song

think of knights in golden mail chivalry when

it wasn't frail think of roses climbing;

you climb, too.

out of the ditch they made for you

wandering off in the conversation

thinking you had left your station.


mary angela douglas 10 november 2020

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