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.
How many evenings in ten years;
Most spent — reading aloud, listening —
Trying to be conscious of their joy?
Today one child is still only ten.
The other is only, still only five.
Time disappears into their growing.
Sometimes you think that even
To be conscious is not enough —
Then you despair, like a castaway,
Fingers cupped on the sea’s edge,
Afraid to sip when it is the whole sea
You are dying, dying to drink.