Decembrist /Weeping Coins Of Chocolate In The Snow (Final Version Reformatted Stanzas) Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

weeping coins of chocolate in the snow
the sugar-plum tree still shimmers
with its long-ago.

I've castled all my castled
on the checkerboard afternoon
and all the pieces are
pure crystal.

I can't begin to say how
much I've missed
the flurries of hard candies
with raspberry centers-
the lemon sun.

open the window
so the pink light
on the floor
will grow into a rose
we will not trample.

mary angela douglas 15 december 2011; 6 october 2023