What it is

June 2010: In a desperate attempt to stave off senility, the monkey began writing a poem a day. By summer's end he'd begun to run out of versified political rants and philosophical bloviations. Then he hit on the improbable idea of writing micro fiction in the form of Elizabethan sonnets. Eureka. The birth of the "Sonnets From Other Lives" series. Two hundred plus lives later, he's still at it.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

10/15
Sonnets From Other Lives: Charles

On the Campo de Frari Charles sits
& sips his customary cappuccino.
At exactly nine o'clock he stands & quits
his place, waves at the waiter--Caio, Gino--
& walks arthritically towards the church.
In the three years since his Sophie passed away
he'd traveled on a kind of quest, in search
of something that, when asked, he couldn't name.
But now each morning Charles takes his place
in the Sanctuary before Titan's Assumption
& sits, eyes fixed on the Madonna's face
for one hour.  Wherefore this presumption?

The resemblance is uncanny.  She could be
a young Sophia in a different ecstasy.
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  1. P. A .HofmannOctober 16, 2010 at 10:09 AM

    Notes: This is set at the Basilica di Santa Maria Glorioso dei Frari in Venice.
    Since I can't paste a pic in the comments box, you can Google image Titian Assumption & see what got Charles all hot & bothered.

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