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Three Sonnets
TONGUE
A tongue was planted
in my mouth,
then candid
a growling in the house,
patted flat
two-handed rote,
a love-bound pact,
ring of throat ─
that dog, long-dead,
and dead-wrong,
bowing its head
like a swan ─
a lick of youth,
a...
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