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Xerex, Coda: Here…
…will you find the first version as it had been penned originally so many decades ago. The dotted lines have been added to indicate whence the sonnets come: O, my sweetest love, Share thou with me The...
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My sweetheart…
…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...
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Intro 1: Xerex for My Love
Oh, my sweetest love, share with me this sweet Xerex, this, which I proclaim Return’th me to thee. Oh, my sweetest love, quiet my restless mind with the still, sweet, grape, which is born of they who...
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Sonnet I: Nectar
If thou, my sweetest love, if thou, with me, Wouldst share the sweet Xerex, that sweetest grape, That loveliest of nectars, which may shape One’s very soul, its very contours free; That selfsame nectar...
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Intro 2: That which Heals
If this elixir is the balm that, so gentle and quiet, wouldst calm my mind and my heart nay, even my very soul, my sweet love, for thee. So gently shalt it ease thy pain, as though a rain, so soft,...
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Sonnet II: To Ease thy Longing
The way of this elixir is its balm, So gentle; that, with artistry, would’ see My mind and heart, my very soul, becalm; As well it would, my sweetest love, for thee. So gently should it wash away thy...
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Intro 3: Medicine or Poison
Remember thou, my sweetest Love, that many forms are yielded up by the fickle grape: The subjective grape might sometimes yield up poison; but it may also yield up medicine that calmeth and healeth thy...
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Sonnet III: Absence
Remember thou, my sweetest love, that grape Made manifest alloweth many forms: A quick but fleeting ichorous escape; A spirit with incalescence that warms. The grape may yield up poison that would...
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Intro 4: Liquid Poetry
As Baudelaire, my father, my twin, my dearest poet knew this drink was fine; so shall I proclaim: My sweetest love, as my servant, as my devoted, as my slave; bringest thou me of the sweetest Xerex...
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Sonnet IV: Liquid Sorrow
Too well, he knew; did Baudelaire, my twin Of spirit, forebear of my soul; and knew, As only he, my dearest poet, grew To know; this drink was fine, as knew he sin. So I thereof proclaim to thee,...
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Intro 5: Mine
But, hear me now, my sweetest love, that thou shouldst know with nary a doubt: Once I shall have, to thine arms, returnèd, thou shalt forever be my perfect wine, most sweet; and thou shalt be the...
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Sonnet V: Crystal
But here, my sweetest love, and now, I pray That shouldst thou know, as sure as once thee knew, That shouldst thou neither worry, nor construe Of me, nor any kind of doubt, display, That shan’t I, once...
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Intro 6: Repletion
Remember, thou shalt forever be Mine Angel– one superior to all the grape is able to be. And I shall ever drink of thee, sweetest, sweetest love; and thenceforth I should never again want for...
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Sonnet VI: Sacrament
Remember thou, that shalt thou ‘ever be, For all of time, mine angel, and my sweet Respite, that cup for which my heart shall beat, Superior in infinite degree To all the finest grape, shall I decree,...
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Intro 7: Rest
In peace, I do go That blessed nectar to seek May it give you ease My love, take these tears To quench the thirst of your soul I shed them in joy But soft, and drink now Breathe the vapours and know me...
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Sonnet VII: Respite
In peace, my love, forever do I goe, That blessed nectar I adored to seek, That gave thee rest and ease in its mystique That long ago hath poured and I bestow. Take thou, my love, these tears that...
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