“Congenital goiter!” 😆 What was up with the renaissance physiology that baby necks looked like that? Or maybe it’s just something unique to the Lord (sorry to laugh at Your malady 🙏).
What a great sonnet! I wonder about Mary’s (author not subject) choice of format. Deviates from what I’m used to seeing.
Seems this wasn't the only time a little kid provoked a poem from Mary Jo Salter: http://quickmuse.com/archive/landing.php?poem=47ac6534864d8
“Congenital goiter!” 😆 What was up with the renaissance physiology that baby necks looked like that? Or maybe it’s just something unique to the Lord (sorry to laugh at Your malady 🙏).
What a great sonnet! I wonder about Mary’s (author not subject) choice of format. Deviates from what I’m used to seeing.
If yer interested in learning more about what contemporary-type poets are doing with the form, Monique, take a look at this: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674061804
Nice work!
Thank you, David! I'm honored to have my sonnet follow your sonnet!
Somewhat earlier...
A NATIVITY SCENE
Painters dispose each figure
as various rules dictate
some smaller and some bigger
in wealth or church or state.
The patron who pays at the side,
the evangelist at his desk.
Flawless brushwork in fur, fleece, hide.
The shepherds picturesque.
The Kings are foreign, but royal,
and though they bow the knee
you know in the end they'd be loyal
each to their own country.
At the back, soldiers, ready for some task,
but what it might be, none of us dare ask.