Strange Clouds Over Capetown Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

[to CNN for a beautiful headline]

strange clouds over Cape Town the headline read;
and Christmas lights too early over Los Angeles
and it seemed to me the news had become blissful

instead of dire as if they had just run out of disasters
and turned to cloud journalism instead.
or else, certain poets had infiltrated the news feeds

of the world so that the news from now on would
be: POETRY POETRY POETRY on all the marquees
or allusions to it; or perhaps the ghosts of poets

are the ghosts in the machine or is it angels, skywriting?
however it may be I am so glad I got to make
without being in the way on a beautiful sci fi day

a poem with the mystical title:
Strange Clouds Over Cape Town...

mary angela douglas 9 november 2015