Here Is The Harbor Where The Ruby Ship Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

Mary Angela Douglas

Mary Angela Douglas

Little Rock, Arkansas United States of America

Here Is The Harbor Where The Ruby Ship



For Amanda Sullivan (on a beautiful photograph she composed)

here is the harbor where the ruby ship
docks with its curios long-forgotten
with its bolts of

hidden brocade, its doll finery
and tangerines
its rose of attar* and

its ambergris; its bears of little or
no trepidation
its dolls with eyes that close
and open

on the fairytale reprised
in waves smoothed beneath us
like spun glass.

here are the peppermint towers
of former graces, bracing the river
and its silk-screened sky-

the hold where the jeweled
nightingale is free:
the soul's musicbox in tune

and every reflection is reflecting
a happiness vivid and undisguised
and buildings white as cream arise

and non-industrial uses of the day.

and everything is a surprise
but perfectly pictured as in the heart
where no one loved
need ever depart

mary angela douglas 2 may 2009

*rose of attar is attar of roses reversed to indicate the photograph's mirroring waters.

Friday, August 14, 2009
Topic(s) of this poem: Ship
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Mary Angela Douglas

Mary Angela Douglas

Little Rock, Arkansas United States of America
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