Floretti Of The Hidden Stars Who Has Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

floretti of the hidden stars who has
carved you into my heart
that the blue and the gold of you

should not be turned away
from the fine fair fairytale doorstep
swept clean of sorrows.

for all the fairytales are truth
down to the least detail.
This I learned to say.

let the debris of exile
castaway, on a ship of no devising
be only the ghost ship sailing away from you,

Beauty in exile,
even after Christ!
floretti floretti I murmured to
bright children sleeping
to the ghost of their tears

in the curve of your canticle, moonlight;
Your broken silver candle still not quenched
though many have thought so

stringing their Mays like pearls and
forgetting the Jeweler.

mary angela douglas 16 february 2014