Saturday, June 01, 2024

LAMENT FOR A CHILD EARLY GONE

 

LAMENT FOR A CHILD EARLY GONE

Who shall fashion for you a silver ferry

Will the mists lift from the seas

The foam of dreams in time

The seafoam, the green of it with pink accents

Shall work for you a cunning boat

As if you were a seamaid’s child


With little emblems signifying

The port of entry; a small scrawled note

Pinned with a brooch of pearl of unknown origin

For a child so apt at vanishing

Into moonlight you shall go

To be found in the bullrushes by Heaven.

The bird from its little nest hatched

Fallen out of the tree of the world.

mary angela douglas 1 june 2024


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