Sunday, August 20, 2023

SOUVENIR FOR ANTON CHEKHOV

while you are still here

in the shambling Spring of the year

they are carting the cherry orchard away

you won't call it stagecraft anymore

but something else to yourself indoors,

under lock and key

the mystery of why in your soul

the cherry orchard razed to the ground

is still in blossom.

mary angela douglas 20 august 2023

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