to observe the outward form
and neglect the inner ceremony
to place the plastic fruit
in the enameled bowl
to feast on what can never be so
to draw the parallelogram in rose
though no teacher takes note of it
to care about lineage but not to know
God
and to lose the images without which
the words have no beauty at all.
the names of childhood.
the purity of rain.
mary angela douglas 18 may 2023
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