In terms of playing off the sonnet as convention, I found the first a bit more on, there, James. But that's some family complex in the 2nd....
Do we say 'surreal'?
Doug
On 2011-09-04, at 11:35 AM, James Cervantes wrote:
> *Seasonal*
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> Sweet work in front of a mirror,
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> all the world behind in terror.
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> Neat work in thinnest shadow,
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> fall in the north, spring in the south.
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> Horses and jeeps, mired in snow,
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> balk or stall. Somewhere, a mouth
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> nurses open to create surprise,
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> clock in death a second time, lift
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> an eyelid. Harmless flirting eyes
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> summer in Puerto Rico, then shift.
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> Plan nothing, she thinks. Funereal
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> winter holds, an eye and window
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> frosted over. A blind sky's missile
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> landed here, a new season's show.
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> *Demise *
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> Tricia says, "Come see the absolutely
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> delicious harbinger exiting
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> from my mouth." "It's probably
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> from the pudding," says Mom,
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> "Come do your homework,
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> then you might go to the prom."
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> Daughter starts scribbling,
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> dark scowl across her brow,
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> slaughter in her mind. The bowl,
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> an ark, with a white prow
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> beached at her nostrils. Lost
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> lunch break. What sweet Louis
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> offers, she takes. With luck, that
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> bunch beneath the fire escape!
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> -- Jim
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