Why Are You Waiiing/What Is In My Heart (Final Version) Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

naming the distinctions between cloud and dream
why must I forget them on coming to consciousness
the worlds on worlds tumble out dissolving in the morning's glare
I asked the jeweled cartographers: am I anywhere;
can I catch you dream world unaware
are you birdlike should I salt your tail,
will the legend fail that birds keep still then
or ask the wind in seven colours why are you wailing.
what is in my heart.

mary angela douglas 2 january 2022; 29 january 2022; 26 march 2023