VALENTINE WITH DOVES ON THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST (FINAL VERSION)

  

VALENTINE WITH DOVES ON THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST (FINAL VERSION)

 

I am lost in the

Kingdom of the Heart

I said to no one living

since the day they felled the

King of it all-

seven swords run through my heart

seven swords and more

and oh the hilts

set with rubies

with russet diamonds

with

the sunset of the world.

and such a vein of

jasper runs through

the soul's so pleached amazement

standing still-

that I forget the words to

sing to you

a last border ballad.

my soul.

become the white dove's scar

and anodyne of mercy-

the cleft on the curl of the

last creamed wave

in this senseless valentine

shadow-box, shadowed, 

shifted by unseen wires

and winds.

the dove cries out

there's blood on the track

there's blood on the track

and more, look back

to the fairytale motto

of snow-cut

delicate drastic cameo

and descent: 

Be True.

in the version scalded

by fairies under broken glass-

scattering their gifts of light far

from - from the retreating henchmen

among last things.

all swords dissolve

with the help of God

who is also weeping

who is also weeping

oh dove, dove, dove

mary angela douglas 19 august 2011,1 june 2010