Thanks to the poetry editor, Rupet Loydell. And to the illustrator Claire Palmer.
This sonnet comes from a series of 14 called 'It's Nothing', which I had thought of as part of a 14X14 sonnet work, but currently I'm not convinced of that structure (though I'm pretty happy with the resultant 'rows': 'Wiped Weblogs', 'Petrarch 3', 'Microbius' and this sequence).
See my previous sonnet in International Times here:
This sonnet comes from a series of 14 called 'It's Nothing', which I had thought of as part of a 14X14 sonnet work, but currently I'm not convinced of that structure (though I'm pretty happy with the resultant 'rows': 'Wiped Weblogs', 'Petrarch 3', 'Microbius' and this sequence).
See my previous sonnet in International Times here:
(‘Avenge’, another sonnet, a contrafact on Milton’s ‘Avenge O Lord…’)
And the one before that here:
(‘Workless Washday’, a birthday poem for Frances Presley).