THE AFTERLIFE OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
As if it were not impossible things occur to you now
More vividly than before
Children stitch their shadows together so as to not be lost
In a farther chapter
And where a princess was thought to have disappeared from
view
The hills shine crystal and crystal transmogorified
And sea anemones are such a deeper shade of cornflower blue
Than even you in second sight sought
To make them
Things occur to you and it seems more startling somehow
The charm of the stories seeping through into the lives of
seraphs now
And the glorified who had forgotten home and weep now almost
inconsolably
For the way the stories unfolded then
Where the wind rustled the pages of books
As though they were roses.
And beauty withstood the fusillades of time
Opening the windows all around
To the lake effect snows of dream
mary angela douglas 28 june 2024
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