Publish It To The Air Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

with blue or is it the red pencil this time

do they really tell you where to breathe

in your own poem

fantastical I said but under my breath

when I understood this was true.

no editors then

but publish it to the air

that those who bore the poem

from that world into this

should edit themselves and remain free

even without recompense

and let my words die on the wind

if I must send to another

in this wilderness

to know my own child.

mary angela douglas 29 july 2019