love the shifts as usual, Hal. And the sharp turn of the final couplet:
how Shakespeherean it all is!
Doug
On 1-Dec-06, at 8:44 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Sonnet: Best Possible Light
>
> Intelligent controllers agree that telecentric approaches
> to the early Beethoven sonatas yield more pleasure
> than twelve-course banquets ever did. When the best
>
> of friends sit down to simple meals of lab-bound pathogens,
> exciting opportunities knock on every locked and bolted
> door. The cooler atoms allow themselves to be captured.
>
> And if we can’t have that we’d have to wonder why. Or, if
> not, why neighborly persiflage now fails to mend fences?
> As always, conveniences morph into necessities among
>
> those who know better than let hotheads prevail. Dance-
> like melodies from the oboe answered by superheated
> rising fourths from the violins. And yet? No exit strategy
>
> will compensate for those stupid missteps at the outset.
> So we’ll soldier on until, one fine day, all is copacetic.
>
>
> Hal
>
> Halvard Johnson
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