Wednesday, March 22, 2023

THE POEM I LOVE CHIMES OUT OF TIME (FINAL VERSION)

 

the poem I love chimes out of Time

impossible to be mistaken for something else

small brushstroke before the venerable mountainin a silken

wind,

lifting toward Oz

or it is robin's egg blue,

The Wooden Shoe,

in the sheepfold skies

the child on the violet hill espies;

Giotto's last sigh.

my rose threaded everything 

of which I shall not be made

to feel ashamed by any Court on earth.

the conjugation of starriness, illusion justified

I shall love till I die.

a bright thimble in the Grandmother's basket

or ruby red life on Mars with a thunderstruck:  why,

it is the cloud's intention to snow

before anyone knows!it is piecework done

a little unfinished but prescience, darling,

with a marvelous unraveling of gold.

it is being stranded without a ticket

and still. going Home.

mary angela douglas 21 january 2022;22 march 2023

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