The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

Passion’s Blind Carving Knife

Passion’s Blind Carving Knife In London ‘they almost died of starvation.’ ~ Edmund White Inhabiting a wilderness of bored Clichés about the plight of poets, this Pair breathed in poverty the gods had stored Up for them from the moment their first kiss Sent Paul...

Abbess Cacoethes of the Paraclete

       Abbess Cacoethes          of the Paraclete     So love-lorn lovers leave their letters on The tomb of Abelard and Heloise Because these failing modern lovers fawn On legend, not on truth.  Upon their knees They worship sea-haar hued romance, this since They...

Suffocated Devotions

  Suffocated Devotions ……….“the fame of his lost love” Who cares about the love of Yazid choked Forever in that clogging of the throat, About Antinous, whose death is cloaked In rumors and suspicions as they float Above the marble whiteness of his...