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.
Lightning is the God of Again.
He strikes no place twice from above
As long as the clouds don’t bear rain
And heat remains frictionless love.
Air, God of Now, fills each tulip
Like a sun not subject to shade,
With love makes the balloon pop
And sees the dead carcass decayed.
The God of And is in the dust
Blown from soil, blown from flower,
Clinging in the storm clouds where lust
Of Now for Again breeds the hour.