Penultimate Fairy Tale Collection Or Is It Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

you must have read all the stories by now you tell yourself
(or They do)
but something wistful says, there's more

as there must be since there's more of anything else,
more clouds, more ice creams, certainly, more roses.
and the Princess sighs almost distraught, self taught

in the King's own libraries.
whenever I rise in the morning mist
(she lived there, too)

I think there must be more than this

an ending more surprising than the last
with more fantastical pictures
as I want a dress to match what Will Be

additionally to What Was
be 'if' velvet or not; oh, if you must
repeat yourself

then let it be yards of cherry velvet
or the shade of creme de menthe

spilling over into
poem after poem...

mary angela douglas 9 november 2015