START ANYWHERE YOU LIKE IN THE BOOK

 

START ANYWHERE YOU LIKE IN THE BOOK

Start anywhere you like in the book

There are many doors

Stage exits and entrances

Lights that burn all night

balconies with garlands of roses hanging over them

pin prick stars

Suddenly a step into dreams

And sleeping there you are in chapter ten

Sleeping within your sleep

You still keep reading

the mists fall around you, rain blown leaves

Reading has become mere breathing

The switching on of the night light moon

The tune beneath your daylit mind resumed

The passage more real than anything to you

An unspoken agreement

Between you and one who lived before

And lives again, in you.

mary angela douglas 22 april 2024