The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

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...

       Linda Means . . .

       Linda Means . . . 0 The boy whose heart replaced his tongue sat down Beside the girl in deepest petticoats That whispered like the whitest waves.  The crown Of that poor male’s fraught day, they were the boats That carried off his thinking to a place So...

Each Moves inside her Veil

Each Moves inside her Veil Each moves inside her veil and longer robe As if protected from the fact of life, But crude and commonplace conditions probe Their would be certainties.  The truth is rife With complications.  Husbands beat their wives When robes and veils...