Friday, December 08, 2023

THE MAP IN ICE CREAM COLOURS (REPOSTED)

how fervently we wished

that the map in ice cream colours

had been the real map


of the World.

the one marked for Treasure.

and Treasure would be found


and then we would sit down

on the checkered cloth for a picnic.

huge cookies, all around


with molten chocolate in the sun

when wishes were young.

and the ice cream map melting


and we are laughing

by infinite streams

in the tall grasslands


and the grass, leaning upwards

into the stars


mary angela douglas 15 april 2015

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