the swan continents break apart
I read from my geography book
in a dream I can't figure out at all
what does it mean: the swan continents
or there is a story by Isak Dinesen
in Winter Tales I'm sure
because my copy has the illustration on the cover
etched in purple of the two childhood sweethearts
drifting apart on a floe of ice that's cracked
maybe the crystal world is cracked
and a thousand thousand rainbows seep
from all the destined fault lines
into the deeps of Space
but I read slowly aloud in Heaven
from the text and next to it a map in pink and green
in Cyrillic handwriting
the swan continents broke apart
but even now they gleam
mary angela douglas 1 march 2023
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