#sonnet variation

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Using form: sonnet variation: Amit Majmudar, 'List of Demands'

All the twists in all the tongues, all the zeroes, all the ones, all the arms of all the goddesses, all the names of the nameless and bodiless, all the ways the all- one embodies, all at once, the alls there are, all our alleles and alphabets, all the forms, yes all, even the sestina, all our alternating lives and deaths, all the kingdoms, phyla, classes, orders, all the peoples borderless as…

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Weekend read: Sonnet variation: Michael R. Burch, 'Erin'

All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,her brilliant air of cavalier despair,her train of children—some conceived in sin,the others to avoid it. For nowhereis evidence of thought. Devout, pale, thin,gay, nonchalant, all radiance. So fair! How can men look upon her and not spinlike wobbly buoys churned by her skirt’s brisk air?They buy. They grope to pat…

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