SOURCES
Lines 1, 14: David Trinidad, “Movin’ with Nancy”
Lines 2, 5: David Trinidad, “Sonnet Bernadette Mayer”
Lines 3, 16: James Schuyler, “February”
Lines 4, 7: George Oppen, “Psalm”
Lines 6, 9: Ellen Bass, “The Thing Is”
Lines 8, 11: Sharon Olds, “The Language of the Brag”
Lines 10, 13: Stanley Kunitz, “The Testing Tree”
Lines 12, 15: Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency”
There is something so soothing about the numbers, the names, the titles of poems.
A soft landing, at least for me, from the intensity of the cento.
I like that a lot.
I love this.