An ex-girlfriend of mine turns 28 tomorrow. I have spent the last few weeks writing her a sonnet, to the surprise and consternation of the friends with whom I have discussed it. Continue reading
Archive for October, 2019
Faded Lovers, Arcane Gods
Posted in Love letters with tags Letters to a Young Poet, Low Rider, Rainer Maria Rilke, Silver Surfer on October 17, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
Your Voice is a Caress Most Definite
Posted in Love letters, poetry, sonnet with tags Petrarchan sonnet, sonnet on October 3, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
Your voice is a caress most definite
On velvet footfalls your words descend
The vertiginous staircase within my head
To take up mysterious residence
Modelling from the darkness a bower
Where meaning is resonant temperature
That blossoms across my eyelids into colour
A verdure of mysterious flowers
These flowers turn their faces narcotic
Toward the distant sun of where you are
With a febrile yearning in their motion
Reaching toward that place exotic
Whose voice describes a sunset-coloured shore
Whose windswept weave is salted with its ocean.
