Category Archives: Sonnets

silence

Except for a light upstairs the house was dark. His car still trembled after the four hour drive, and little boys’ breath was soft as their beating hearts as he gathered them gently, carried them in to his wife. The … Continue reading

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Looking out over the Elsa Valley: Tuscany, 1998

These bricks have felt the sun rise under Caesar those walls across the valley glistened then some eyes some hands have planned and planted trees here and poets sang the song I sing again. Each inch of land and every … Continue reading

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blue tuesday

rain slides down the window in rough sheets the garden drips and broods unseen alone as if the birds were gone they sing unheard the very walls hang portraits of gray stone slow water dripping softly in the sink gives … Continue reading

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