Tuesday, July 27, 2021

The Toads Depart From The Imaginary Gardens

it is the toad croaking to the princess every time

at least re the poems I have in mind

when the critics attack in the mode of 

the toad most slippery flinging the swamp  water back

on her gold worked hem when

they croak, :every one of them:


better to be dead than to be caught out

writing sentimental verse

or what is worse tell us how you feel

about what is real

because we dont believe in your sappy magical kingdoms

green and horrid let the unemerald frog depart

so I may keep the better angels of my heart.

mary angela douglas 27 july 2021

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