Sonnets for the New Year
Sonnets written on New Year's Day about the disintergration of love
Tenderly, I think of you, lovelierthan I have ever known. Your eyes sing,your voice dances, your hair, fluffierand wilder than when gypsies laugh and flingtheir hearts like tambourines and a fiddleplays. You dazzle me, but like a rainbowI can’t reach, a star I can’t touch, a riddleI can’t penetrate--someone I don’t know. Our words, when we speak, ricochet.Gestures I once caught fall from my handsand bounce across the floo...
