| | My Love Sent Me a List O my Love sent me a lusty list,
Did not compare me to a summer's day
Wrote not the beauty of mine eyes
But catalogued in a pretty detailed
And comprehensive way the way(s)
In which he was better than me.
"More capable of extra- and inter-
Polation. More well-traveled -rounded multi-
Lingual! More practiced in so many matters
More: physical, artistic, musical,
Politic(al) academic (I dare say!) social
(In many ways!) and (ditto!) sexual!"
And yet these mores undid but his own plea(s)(e)
And left, none-the-less, the Greater Moor of me. |
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| Copyright © 2013 by Olena Kalytiak Davis. Used with permission of the author. |
About this Poem: "No, really, a found poem; however, I also find, that if one reads thirty or so Shakespearean sonnets in a row (out loud), something is bound to happen." Olena Kalytiak Davis |
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Olena Kalytiak Davis is the author of two books of poetry, Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities (Bloomsbury/Tin House, 2003), and And Her Soul Out Of Nothing (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997). She practices law and lives in Anchorage, Alaska. |
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