“Sequester Sonnet” by Muriel Nelson (Poetry ’96)
Poetry alum Muriel Nelson was recently featured in Guesthouse with two poems. Read an excerpt of “Sequester Sonnet” below:
Sequester Sonnet
This is a time of talking to oneself
or overhearing Rostropovich “talk” Bach.
You play it for yourself, he says of the second
suite for cello, its sarabande the saddest
movement of all. You could, instead, sing
to your speaker Duruflé’s “Ubi Caritas,”
that choral celebration of congregating
as one…
Continue reading the piece as well as an additional poem here: Nelson, Muriel— Guesthouse
