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.
It. It? What is it at the source?
We can’t know it by stealth or force
Or guess at its speed or course.
Like one word buried in a book
(Moving like a trout in a brook
That will not rise to the eye,
That will not rise to the fly),
Read once and lost between covers,
It stymies the question — hovers
Just beyond comprehension,
Beyond time and dimension.
It depends on what you know
Less than water needs wind for snow
Or an arrow a broken bow.