Marie Ponsot
SONNETS by Marie Ponsot One Is One Explorers Cry Out Unheard Heart, you bully, you punk, I'm wrecked. I'm shocked What I have in mind is...
...by earth-light, straight, for a long time now...
...thrill its corridors with messages...
...the bad company I've kept, the bad risks I've run have left me standing (a figure of fun Self-schooled I've been fish, ocean floors but) one at whose shadow some strangers halt...
...There at last I reach growing things one by one, with my own eyes...
...Reform...
...Memory grants since jailers are prisoners' prisoners too...
...Join the rest of us, drives me toward the imagined truths 1 stalk, and joy will come, and make its test of us...
...connects me to all the rest...
...The changing past You scare me, bragging you're a double agent includes & can't excerpt me...
...le requin qui me nwrd s' empoisonne...
...Unplugged Better Once, you were translucent...
...just the nothing it knows, & my distress Think...
...I to the next use Here's the best joke, though its flavor is salt: poles are put to by the great competitors...
...Brute...
...you still try to rule the world - though I've got you: identified, starving, locked I sweat to learn its heights of sun, scrub, ants, in a cage you will not leave alive, no its gashes full of shadows and odd plants, matter how you hate it, pound its walls, as inch by inch it yields to my hard press...
...I miss, dismiss the lust for free obedience...
...me and the source...
...you stood between After a long wet season the rain's let up...
...You took the valuables when you left...
...I come, eves wide, outside...
...Green leaves turn inside out to grow...
...I define I climb the green hill...
...Now you reel & brawl If interdependence shapes the biomass, in your cell but I'm deaf to your rages, though l plot my next step by pure chance your greed to go solo, your eloquent I can't go wrong...
...Disconnected you vanished...
...wrinkling my shadow, flashing free, loose, I've been pole when some asked, so they could vault in my long survival of all I've done - supported, high as they like, letting one drop for sharks that bite me eat death by poison, intact & roll, safe, to a grassy stop...
...SONNETS by Marie Ponsot One Is One Explorers Cry Out Unheard Heart, you bully, you punk, I'm wrecked...
...It haunts me, their extinct talk that charts less and more as more and less...
...you tempered the light, became The list my life was on was critical...
...my bed, my laundry...
...They spatter & whisper as I walk their Abandoning our old lamps and chairs breathing avenue...
...Today the rain stops...
...And the way behind me changes as I advance...
...those savages...
...Make us one...
...I'm shocked What I have in mind is the last wildernessstiff...
...my pantry, my stairs...
...In natural light the world the world is immense...
...From the road car-tunes rush close then slacken...
...you my constant, the light-speed I saw by...
...I have seen reproach soaked it and infected my ears...
...I trusted you...
...a figured stillness where no nightmares slide...
...The wind has died back: you unscrewed that incandescent choice of mine: a general light elaborates the air...
...Commonweal: 566...
...the light I chose to see by...
...I name I hid, deaf & blind, my skin my hospital, the objects, powerful, that I have kept: in the inoperable ache of fear...
...The Title's Last We've gone our ways with pleasure & without fault, they to the next race...
...I can hear' Trees drip...
...Even willful] deviance threats of worse things you (knowing me) could do...
...They breach their barriers, I see...
Vol. 113 • October 1986 • No. 18
