JOSHUA WARE

ROUGH SPRING SONNET 23
-after Mina Loy

In narrow streets
an elliptical moment wanders
a deviation into Bengal light
sky-rocketing into constellations
or an ocean in reverse
flickers flickers flickers
fails flesh & the unimagined
A moment in midnight
empties our song for Joannes
sung again in elliptical reverie
I once bore a baby
but the baby walked away
yes yes yes
I am one too little

ROUGH SPRING SONNET 24

I will look for the goodness
that follows moonlight
I will look deep into the dark woods
for a weird deer
but not for nostalgia of another
I’ve been caught
in the memory of  mistaken love
I’ve let myself be lost
in a landscape thick w/ pharmaceuticals
Ginger house O ginger house
to spend a night in a ginger house
I hope the clouds
bounce off the sun
I hope you won’t forget me

ROUGH SPRING SONNET 25

The happiness to come
delays my return or returns me
to a delay in moving forward
A red red string attached
to a Valentinehead
calls out to a cherry ghost in German
A cherry fairy a child undone
The universe simply does
it never asks permission
Any color every sun
the lightness of imprecision
shines through theory
Let be be
nothing more than me

ROUGH SPRING SONNET 26

Tirra lirra there are songs on the horizon
tirra lira the songs so faraway
Golden heavy galaxies
broken brightly from the flowers
& you run through the woods
as a form of relaxation
& you burn a snowman
for a mind of summer
as it passes from winter w/o spring
Who needs seasons
in streams of leafy letters
falling from you to me
while we bury a fucking body
below the coastal sand

Joshua Ware can be reached at 10803 Lake Avenue, Apartment 304, Cleveland, OH 44102.