Monday, January 18, 2021

Sonnet 2021

 

nor sullen to wonder whether ink-sick,

or torched wilderness nor chain-links –

as murmurs rise those eyes bled bricks,

of glassy fires near wires at brinks.

nor love-wand at breath at kef at knees,

much more adored as flying grayness –

assumed as lover for mere inept breeze,

for rain befell lust sure gust in feyness.

nor pitted as dying looking for myself,

or captive an armchair loving but you –

or eating wildweeds groveling for help,

as but a liar for pain was good as dew.

tomorrow is death by guillotine strike,

unless abandon hits heart by spark of life.

Time was Brief

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