Waving Goodbye To Ray Bradbury Again/Hymn To God My God In My Retreats; The Little Setbacks Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

[waving goodbye to Ray Bradbury again; remembering my own work too: HYMN TO GOD MY GOD IN MY RETREATS; THE LITTLE SETBACKS
(waving goodbye again to Ray Bradbury, after his 100th birthday...
remembering my first steps into poetry as into snow walking blind) ===================================
to flowers whose names I've never known
wildflowers in the Himalayas
crab apple in the Milky Way
recently christened stars, Alpha Centura or Mars
sun flares already finished with their spectrums
and the sunflower husks shed
while I was waiting for the school bus. amid the maple leaves.
let there be this understanding between us
may there be wild orchids in the desert of my retreats
and little setbacks:
i still will count the opal names of God exquisitely to myself
forgetting all else, all other names
and remember the coolness of evening winds
the jade winds of april
the songs I laid down at Your feet
when I was only fifteen.
mary angela douglas 25 august 2020
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