Sonnet

In a quest to gain truth, we lose what is true

Seeking light to be enlightened is a blind man’s...

That impure touch housed in masquerade

Seek the body of many, the love of few

Love hidden...

I, too, have an ideal, and fairest dreams; but such a stampede.
I reckon a firefly weeps; and...

Is it transference: I’m unfamiliar; but so familiar: read the

Scriptures; and dear—my God, the...

We merge, such love and agony: we cry, such pain and miracle.

Our dance, a subtle influence: a...

My cactus rose, a teal-ic ray, and fuchsia dreams, a sophic
Grey. Indeed the beige, a telic storm,...

So much a fervent smile: pink and shy, my love. Here’s a
Jasmine rose, my cello soft; and what the...

I feel flame—a fire blue; but near the pith—a vase of tears.
Thus the heart, the grip of truth; and...

I die the multiple—alive, my nightmare. The music, shy of

Mania. Tell the magic, life is completion...

I love, but not intimate love. I fall, but not the fall of death.

Here’s a riddle: everything is...

Such tropical fuchsia: the webs of love. My exotic flower:
Fuse the pollen; but such cactus water:...

I heard a sermon: God spoke of diamonds: Christ smiled. I’m

So inflated, two fathoms near the Holy...

My teeth chatter—a silent pain. My soul wails—a vocal wound.

If not God—a catastrophe; and if not...

So much the pain; and seldom they listen; and oh the music,

A solemn tear. Such petals, a chameleon...

She ate purple cherries, and flared a flute. I offered dates; and
She blushed. This feeling—a...

I imagine ginger snaps, licorice, and red grapes. I, too, imagine

A growing wit. So much to capture...

I held a daffodil, and pondered sugar apples. Such to speak:
Yellow-green; and lightfast gems, the...