Mary Angela Douglas Poems

13th Reflection on Kabakov


the things you had learned
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sadness comes in waves I said

they closed the door
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CONFUSED, TANGLED WITH STARLIGHT

{to Jesus, the Light of the World]
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it should have been the letter to the king

I dropped in the tisket or tasket
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don't be afraid walking on waters

a small voice chimed
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I know You will catch me whenever I fall

into the nets of Your delicate provision
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for Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam

to the music of Messian's Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
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does light grow, does it have roots

can it become, does it have shoots
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[on the painting by John Singer Sargent]

we hold the lanterns in our gaze and they shall not go out
the lily, the rose, the lily rose shadows their carnation
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it isn't fair could she have said
to the chill in the corners:
these impossible fairytale deadlines...
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