Eratio

Eratio Issue 17

 

 

 

SONNET

 

by Kenneth E. Harrison, Jr.

 

 

 

 

Time as faint curvature a river slices through

 

distant hips of fields as though witness dust

 

grant us prayer on the crossing under sky

 

dissolved across thrush and the begonia’s grip

 

when we sought beyond the skin’s rush above

 

the smell of pears never forgotten the surface

 

of our parting a remote orchard the days soak

 

whose hand touches another where music gusts

 

astonished in complete breaths our own image

 

ran out from summer’s moistened room lighted

 

we’ve been loved and backed away how sound

 

prolongs a shudder of wings risen from ditches

 

splashed with clover I am not one person one

 

nature climbed the rise with you my failed oath—

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kenneth E. Harrison, Jr.’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, elimae, Margie, Orange Quarterly, Packingtown Review, Pleiades, Spittoon, Sukoon, TYPO, Word For/Word and elsewhere.  He teaches English composition, Literature, and poetry at Webster University and Florissant Valley Community College in St. Louis. 

 

 


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