The sonnet sequence, "My Human Disguise," of 600 ekphrastic poems, was begun February 2011 and completed January 15, 2022. It can be found beginning with the January 20, 2022 post and working backwards. Going forward are 20 poems called "Terzata," beginning on January 27, 2022. Thirty more Terzata can be found among the links on the right. A new series of dramatic monologues follows on the blog roll, followed by a series of formal poems, each based on a single word.
I set a pebble on a table by a spoon
And tried to tell the difference between
My mind and the surface of the table.
Evening stole the light and soon
The rest of the rest of the room seemed
As far as the spoon was from the pebble.
It was not the pebble or the spoon
That took the center of the scene
But the impulse engendering this fable.
There is no finer thought than this,
That what could be is not what is.