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Sonnet: Metaphysical Belles

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Cesare Saccaggi (Italian, 1868-1934), 'Dante and Beatrice in the garden'
Cesare Saccaggi (Italian, 1868-1934), 'Dante and Beatrice in the garden'
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I will love you mercilessly and will beat

my frantic wings against the pane

until something breaks inside. I will flame

like a solar fire filled with fugal heat,

and then press, press -- a wild insurgency

of barbarians crazed by inner joy --

no matter if I create or destroy,

pushed on by existential urgency.

For whether driven by Donne's tripart God,

Poe's Bells, or the stark Stravinsky's Firebird,

you move me until I am absurd

with desire -- like some burned out lightning rod --

a bird of paradise in a living hell

salivating metaphors at the knell.

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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