Goodnight! I Hold One Star Aloft Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

Goodnight! I hold one star aloft

the one in tinfoil wrapped for the children's play

and you may think I'll have no where to stay

but I'll stay here

collecting the fallen blossoms year to year

in my museum of pinks and apricots

that's saying a lot you will not countenance

because you're frowning, grousing it's not on the map

what do I care.I find the chocolates wrapped in gold

and spend them everywhere

and tinker with the ant hills under the moon

and sing to so neglectful you

who think that information will save the world

goodnight goodnight

I'll say in silver to whomever's listening still

or pray the angels take my songs to God, I will

and hush my ministering spirits hence

where language still is innocence.

mary angela douglas 21 september 2021