Sunday, March 10, 2024

THE DREAM OF THE ANTIQUE DOLL

 

THE DREAM OF THE ANTIQUE DOLL

I dreamed I found an antique doll

Or that it found me

It was a cloth doll

With a printed face

Dingy, its hair moth eaten a little

Out of place

It had the expression of an infinite sadness

So that one would want to comfort it endlessly

And I tried.

People around me In the dream ridiculed me for this

Because I loved the doll as if It were my own child

And would not let it go

Would not say anything at all about it

Except that it was valuable

More than any of you know I said in the dream

It seemed to me

The dolls eyes filled with tears

mary angela douglas 10 march 2024


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