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Socks and Sonnets |
Stitch by careful stitch and line by line The knitter sees the woollen sock emerge And line by line and patient word by word The sonnet links its syllables and rhymes. Needles you need, (not two or three, but four) Each one in careful tension with the rest; Likewise your mind must gently hold the text In place, and balance meaning alongside form. Like a sock the poem must turn. Just so: The hardest part of any knitter’s task, The heel, is done. You race towards the toe And sew the final threads. So we just ask Indulgence as we see the poem through And hope our sonnet ends with neatness too. ©The contents of this page are copyright protected.
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