Creation – a Sonnenizio*

Creation – a Sonnenizio*

(After D.H. Lawrence, “Piano”)

Softly in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;

Her song is the dappled flavor of sangria

Pressing – pressed –

Into a singed bowl.

Sing and cry, O, my companions!

Sing, “O, Bless us with a blessing!”

Cry, “We have come to hear the world unsung!”

Sing the sensual crossing –

Singers! Name

the missing and the dead!

Sing the world into being!

Sing these readers read! Yet

Pressing shapes us – shaped by terror

Love, or some quite singularly dusty error.

LFM

*14 lines.  First line borrowed from another’s sonnet.  One word from the first line repeated in each following line.  Last 2 lines rhyme.