into an argument of
structured time.
Watch the line and follow
its careful patterns
of rhyme and half-ryhme.
Observe its precarious
virtuosity.
You can harness it like Aristotle
there is a
pleasing symmetry
In Shakespeare’s trick – thesis, antithesis –
but Petrarch’s
dance of sextet and quatrain
is the holy
marriage of thee and four –
the poetry of two
times seven.
Watch the line
plunge and come back again
as it turns to
magic a prime number
winding
precipitously to heaven.
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