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Couldn't help but post these.

sonnet III

Bitter love, a violet with its crown
of thorns in a thicket of spiky passions,
spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come
to conquer my soul? what via delorosa brought you?

Why did you pour your tender fire
so quickly over my life's cool leaves?
Who pointed the way to you? what flower,
what rock, what smoke showed you where I live?

Because the earth shook -it did- that awful night;
then daw filled all the goblets with its wine;
the heavenly sun declared itself;

while inside, a ferocious love wound around
and around me- till it pierced me with its thorns, its sword
slashing a seared road through my heart


sonnet XVII
(excerpts)

I love you as certain things are to be loved,
in secret , between the shadow and the soul
... the plant that never blooms
... lives darkly in my body

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where
I love you straightforwardly without complexities or pride
So I love you because I know no other way