Wednesday, October 17, 2018

59: Sonnets are ok, nothing new here — it’s a revolution just the same —

whether better or worse, I’ll do
labor for nothing but invention.

I invent looking backwards — admiring antique books and records that show images of men with your frame.

I’m freaked by their beguiling brainwork, better words, I could say —
But I am sure we praise the old world most
seeing you first in the character and wit of former days.

Over the course 500 years, surely no one as beguiling as you.
As for me, there’ll be no wonder but you.