The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

Some Myths Come Up Inside Us

Some Myths Come Up Inside Us  0\s Some myths come up inside us with the force Of memory.  I wake to find that I Have been gnawing on the flesh of a Norse God; just a dream, except that there’s the dye Of truth in it because the meat was Charles My friend.  That...

  Time Might not Go Forever

  Time Might not Go Forever 0 Time might not go forever but it’s long Enough to grow quite thin.  That’s why we’ve thought Up things like God, immortal life, and song Of angels praising Him from the year dot– If His creation of them was the...

You Stare at Them, Can’t Help It

You Stare at Them, Can’t Help It 0 You stare at them, can’t help it, as they stalk Along the catwalk or they stare at you From glossy magazines.  Perhaps you gawk At them  as if your hungry look could hew A way to beauty in their beds with them Where you...