Holiday Song To Beautiful Information Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

beautiful information drenched the deserts,
painting the suns.
beautiful information;

in coded moonlight
cast shadows of gold on
the fainting gardens.

of the heart?
I wondered.
of the heart?

and fluffed up the yards
in time for Christmas:
a snowy glaze; who could

ever watch enough;
the clouds were ever full.
and we made merry

printing out paper chains of it:
on fabulous milled paper

the red and the green.
a sweet holiday scene

for our children
in their rose coloured mittens.
kittens played in the piano

clawing the strings of
beautiful information.
cozy as cozy.

and lining the shelves
near the chintz sofa, the easy chair
whole volumes no longer gleamed

eclipsed as they were, everywhere,

from screen to shining screen
by beautiful beautiful blizzarding information.
break out the hot cocoa with the pastel marshmallows!

mary angela douglas 1 october 2015