The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

I Want to Go to Sleep, but Poems…

I Want to Go to Sleep, but Poems… I want to go to sleep, but poems keep On brushing with their wings against my eye. I want to take a fatal nap, but sleep Is flicked away by angel pinions high Above such cowardly retreat.  Feather Upon feather brushes up against...

Wonky Shoulder Christ

Wonky Shoulder Christ Perhaps the reason why the painting makes Christ’s shoulder look deformed is not because The artist, Rubens, wants to show God aches For human suffering he’s caused with flaws In his creation.  Why this wonky joint Was perpetrated on...