Three Sonnets by Robert Thomas (poetry, ’02)

An excerpt from the sonnet “Sonnet with Swan and Long Tall Sally,” by Robert Thomas (poetry, ’02), one of three sonnets published in The Yale Review:

 

Sonnet with Swan and Long Tall Sally

What if we’re the crux, the diamond lynchpin?
What if creatures in other galaxies
have a vague sense that something is missing,
but don’t know it’s Little Richard, Shakespeare,
and cornbread with plum jam? They have their songs,
but like the Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge, not
Exile on Main Street, or as if Monet
stopped painting before the water lilies; […continue reading here]