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Sonnet

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White, listless streamers, fat clusters of snow
streaking the air in random, confusing isolation.
Like the dead sky, the snow gives no consolation.
The dimness robs from us contrasts and shadows,
laying a frigid blanket on the earth, from which grows
no hope in its mixture of mud and corruption—
no buzzing insects, no flowers, no green eruption—
just a dull, white chill too painful to know.
In you I find a similar season, a bleak smile
descending to coldly cloak my vision and art.
My radiant muse! yet you would have me daring
nothing, feeling nothing, making nothing—while
seeming so fecund; the pure embrace, the free heart
and tender lips, the wet, tropical illusion of caring.

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swampmessiah Saint Paul, Minnesota

I was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1957. I've been drawing all my life and painting since about 1975; I started writing poetry and rants in, maybe, 1976; since 1996 I've been recording those poems and rants, usually with a "musical" backing.
I live in Saint Paul, Minnesota. My partner and I have two children. I have a day job that is in no way artistic.
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