Poem-A-Day: Sonnetesque by Lynn Emanuel

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Sonnetesque by Lynn Emanuel   I love its smallness: as though our whole town were a picture postcard and our feelings were on vacation: ourselves in mini- ature, shopping at tiny sales, buying the newspapers--small and pale and square as sugar cubes--at the fragile, little curb. The way the streetlight is really a table lamp where now we sit and where real night, (which is very tall and black and at our backs), where for a moment the night is forced to bend down and look through these tiny windows, forced to come closer and put its hand on our shoulder and stoop over the book to read the fine print. This is the first publication of "Sonnetesque" Copyright © 2012 by Lynn Emanuel. Used with the permission of the author.  Poetry by Emanuel Noose and Hook The Dig and Hotel Fiesta October 26, 2012 Lynn Emanuel is the author of six books of poetry, including Noose and Hook (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010). Also by Emanuel Dream In Which I Meet Myself Homage to Sharon Stone inside gertrude stein Related Poems We Manage Most When We Manage Small by Linda Gregg When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare Parkeresque by Rebecca Wolff Poem-A-Day started as a National Poetry Month program in 2006, delivering daily poems from newly-published poetry titles.   Due to popular demand, Poem-A-Day became a year-round program in 2010, featuring original, never-before-published poems by contemporary poets on weekdays, and classic poems on weekends.   Browse the Poem-A-Day archive for selections since 2010.  Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem In Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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