The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

Five Friendship Sonnets

              Five Friendship Sonnets                    Best at a Distance Some say that friendship’s realm is nowhere but Nostalgia.  Love of man for man exists In regions where the friend is absent, shut Out, exiled, say, or better dead, subsists On mourning, loss,...

October Heights

October Heights   For Carl   The autumn sweeps across Vermont again As flame-shaped hills define the distant days. Once more I live in exile–and the pain Of frosted air and leaves and dawns of haze Creates the landscape of my memories. There will not be another...

Prezioso

          Prezioso   The pain of losing you began to swell Like hints of seismic tremors underground; Like healthy lungs starting to . . . feel unwell . . . To send some unknown poisons all around A heart that hurts before the wound is dealt. Inside the chest a...