The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

A Diminished Thing

    A Diminished Thing The ruin of a stylish building, he Presides now over that dull avenue Late Middle Age.  Not near senility, This man’s poetic as Kalamazoo, Yet once he was a skyscraper with black Curls.  They are going thin and turning gray. His massive...

Paradise Tossed

Paradise Tossed It seem to me that paradise would soon Become a glut, perhaps already is For those who dwell there.  It’s as if the noon Had giant spotlights added and the fizz Of sixty billion sparklers, too, and then Someone lets off a hundred trillion A Bombs...

Spenser’s Red Cross Knight

  Spenser’s Red Cross Knight           Edmund Spenser, Wikipedia The Red Cross Knight was far too much.  The dark Spell-casters, monsters, faeries–whatever– He kept avoiding, meeting in the park Of that ridiculous poem, never Found him interesting...