Into Our Wilderness You Dropped The Golden Orb Of Song Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

into our wilderness you dropped the golden orb of song

it looked like a lost star fallen from a cloud and wistful and

strange

until

someone picked it up



and began to play it as on an imaginary violin

or a child skipped rope in a deserted parking lot

and sang to it at dusk



thinking it was a friend

how did you Lord God grant to us such music

banished as we were from your Eden



except that truly in your heart

You never banished us at all

mary angela douglas 18 june 2021