WHAT I SAY TO YOU IN DREAMS

 

WHAT I SAY TO YOU IN DREAMS

You leave me behind on the shore of language

And I am always waving goodbye to you from the ground

While you soar my compeers a thing you are accustomed to

While i

Soaked to the skin in semaphores of rain, exhaustion

The exhaustion of the shore birds pray for you obscure as mists

Let me say this as 

I say to you in dreams to those in the mirror’s mirror

Who should be my compeers if the world were fair

And would query you if I could in ancient wartime telegrams

That never reached their destination

Still I will bide

Like a slow unvarnished bride of silence

An urn full of ashes

Tipped over at heavens door.

mary angela douglas 3 march 2024