Sonnets

The Romance of Middle Age

Rattle / January 28, 2023

Now that I’m fifty, let me take my showers at night …

Rattle / January 14, 2023

The realtor claimed the flat was lived in once
by Janis Joplin, a quite common claim,
we later learned. The tactic worked on us.

Rattle / August 10, 2021

There is only one ring for those sweating horses with the preternaturallyflat backs and the fat smooth rumps from which

Rattle / April 6, 2019

My bowl of lamb and gravy from the can appears each morning when at last you rise. An hour ago

Rattle / August 17, 2010

You may have thought, from visiting art shows, that canyons squeezed together on their way downstream. No. That’s only perspective.

Rattle / August 14, 2010

The bed sheet knows the vices I’ve slept.How quickly it nooses my feet. Someone said,we’re wrong men in a right