LizGallagher

A Lady in the Bath with Angels

Ever since that lady on the ‘Late, Late Show’ said
that an angel makes itself know through the appearance
of a white feather, every which way I turn I’m seeing

white feathers. At present a tiny one is sitting on my miniature
word-jotting-down note book. I have up to ten others in various
hideaways about the house. The lady said that her first angels

appeared to her while she was in the bath. They weren’t tiny
nor floaty but 6 feet tall, hunky and blonde. She said that people
don’t want to hear about angels being so big and that we’ve got

to shed pre-conceived notions about angels. The interviewer
said that people nowadays would fear seeing white feathers
about the place and only think of bird flu and how risky

it is to sit around lakes and swan-watch. The Lady thinks
that angels won’t come unless we ask them to. She says
they will do anything for us but we have to summons

them. She says we each have an angel and that they want
to save the world but they stay quiet until we believe
in them. I want to believe in angels. But gathering white

feathers makes me feel too possessive. I’d like to let them go
but how do I learn to mouth something significant to an Angel?

Liz Gallagher

Liz is Irish and lives in the Canary Islands, Spain. She is an English language Teacher in the Foreign Language Department of Las Palmas University and she is at present trying to complete a PhD on 'Online Learning' and poetry is her way of relaxing! Her work has been published in a recent anthology of writing from women in the North West of Ireland entitled 'EVE...a celebration of creative women' (http://www.poetrychicks.com/eve_project.html) She has also had work published in 'Speech Therapy' - an Independent Poetry magazine from Northern Ireland. She has had work accepted for Centrifugal Eye, Wicked Alice and Noo Literary e-zines. Liz can be contacted at isabellavalido@yahoo.es

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