Sonnets

A Knack for Losing Things

Rattle / June 19, 2010

The art of losing isn’t hard to master. —Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art” What has been lost along my careless way […]

Whooping Rendezvous

Rattle / June 17, 2010

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/DavisWhooping.mp3″] Outside our bedroom window, we both heard a whooping noise from somewhere in the dark, and though an

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The Circus of Inconsolable Loss

Rattle / June 12, 2010

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/CarlisleCircus.mp3″] There is only one ring for those sweating horses with the preternaturally flat backs and the fat smooth

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The Recrudescence of the Muse: One Poet’s Journey

Rattle / June 4, 2010

Freedom is only truly freedom when it appears against the background of an artificial limitation. —T. S. Eliot Rhythm and

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Bad Usage

Rattle / June 2, 2010

[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/BarnstoneUsage.mp3″] When in the mist of a phone call you loose yourself in thought and all seams an allusion,

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Motown Crown

Rattle / January 6, 2010

The Temps, all swerve and pivot, conjured schemes that had us skipping school, made us forget how mamas schooled us