I am posting these poems in the order in which they were written, which means we see the night first. This is a sonnet which begins with the stars and ends with something much closer at hand…
The poem is worked out in one of my favorite sonnet structures, the Spenserian, with its abab bcbc cdcd ee rhyme scheme. This makes for a particularly closely in…
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