Reading Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

in the book I am blossoming again

as if I could see through words as through a

transparent green pear coloured;

on the inside I am gold and flecked in a radiance

not quite glimpsed on earth

can I wonder so as if this expanse were mine

this realm of pages dusted with a strange sugar snow

that I have come to know then to forget

and recognize again

in the book I am blossoming

as though I will never end

and I know that this is so

beyond any radiance not quite found on earth...

mary angela douglas 14 august 2021