Mary Angela Douglas Poems

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221.

[to William Blake and the Space Program]

places with such beautiful names have endured such atrocities
I heard the angels chained complain complain
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222.
Another Meditation On Cinderella's Dress

the froth of her dress was like a small sea
or something branched as flowers can be
in the spring or starlight caught in a looking
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223.
In The Variety Store Of My Dreams

[to Eugene Field for the Sugarplum Tree,
to all the Five and Ten's...]

in the variety store of my dreams I saw...
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224.
For Banished Music

[for John Dowland and myriad others]

why do they balk at the beautiful words
and send them pitiless, away?
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225.
Through Goldenrod Years

to my sister

they've castled my castles did you cry
to the vacant chessboard
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226.
Light Rain

we heard music through a cloud
so faintly; o finally we thought either
we are dying or is music
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227.
Who Has The What O'clock In Fairy Tales

we heard music through a cloud
so faintly; o finally we thought either
we are dying or is music
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228.
What They Said

forever finding the silver key
to the golden door
the right glove not the left
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229.
Is Life Not Burning Bush Enough

is life not burning bush enough
that we should kneel
here in the shadow of your lovely
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230.
Oops! Or The Fairies Have Really Good Hearing

would you care for a drop of chocolate,
a pink iced bun?
we asked the Fairy on the run.
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