FLAP AWAY UNLOVELY BUZZARD

 

FLAP AWAY UNLOVELY BUZZARD

Flap away unlovely buzzard

Gather better music if you may

You will not snatch rich cherries from the boughs

Of the living day

So shall the larks still sing

Though postmodernists tell them to shut up

Adopt a cynical air you shall not

Pecking at my wondering, wandering here..

Wonder shall remain

As Christ, declaimed

And resurrect the dying day

So that you will have no feast,

Collect the toll we had to pay

Because everything everything

Will remain so alive.

mary angela douglas 27 april 2024