The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

Shàn in Abundance

      Shàn in Abundance I know a woman in Beijing who cares. She cares for cats.  She rescues them the way The Buddha might.  She takes them in and shares Her tiny income with them.  People flay And eat them in the south of China.  She Protects abandoned cats.  When I...

Zero Truth from Ancient India or the Olmecs

Zero Truth from Ancient India or the Olmecs It wasn’t an Islamic scholar who Formulated that non-number zero. No matter how much Muslims might want to Deny that fact, the actual hero, An ancient, not even slightly linked with The Arab world, did it.  The simple fact...

A & P

                     A & P My mother took me to the A & P Quite often, in the 50s, and back then That market and the little town were key To my whole view, as Proust’s lost madeleine Became for him.  The color of that cake Was like the dark orange smell of...