On The Longest Day Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

On the longest day
Let us be brimful of benedictions
let us staunch all wounds with dark honey
and carry the wounded in soft clouds
and build for them a castle of pine boughs and fir
scented as if for Christmas, cloves and oranges.
allow no footfall to distress them
no carrion wing to invade their dreams
let the whole earth be full of consolations
and the grasses bend gently
by the rivers of time.
mary angela douglas 11 march 2024