…left me the most beautiful thing on my Xerex sequence. I really thought it the fitting and most perfect end and answer to the thing. So beautiful. So now the sequence has seven sonnets. It sounds to me together like wedding bells and wedding vows and honeymoons and love everlasting.
And … what am I to do now with the order of things. Should I move the whole Xerex sequence–all seven brothers–up to the front to be with its sister? Something along those lines will have to be done, I think.
Here you will find the words themselves, presented in freeverse as simply and compactly as possible. The order of the words is not changed; there is nothing added or removed, but punctuated in order to make it easier to follow the words–something just short of prose, perhaps. And although the line lengths appear problematic, it so happens that there are 14 of these lines.
I should state that the words were originally written this way, although you might have suspected that the original form was presented in part 5. In any case, the words are easily understood now.
Just read the words. Think about what they mean; perhaps in answer to the original prompt:
One thing for certain
You can tell what is going on here
Without punctuation
I thought the following would be an interesting form of analysis. What would happen, I wondered, if I picked out all or most of the verb/verb-like structures and began each line with them? How many would there be, and what form would begin to unfold? Strangely Triadic line more or less suggests itself. Not of the form I originally showed but still this exercise generates 14 verses, and it might start to become clear that I tend to subconsciously “think in sonnets.” I wasn’t aware originally that some of these types of patterns would arise, but it seems as though they have.
Have a look and see if this helps you understand the words any better. What does one think of when one sees such lines? It is curious that many of the lines appear to look and sound like a certain variety of 20 century poetry; wherein one often sees lines beginning and ending in odd spots–possibly to create tension, and possibly for some other reason–or even no reason at all.
What is the meaning of
this form?
Is this more capriciousness?
It is probably
apparent that I did not
write the words in the
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David Emeron: Sonnets 