This year I am using the seven days of the week as prompts for a crown of sonnets
After the film ‘A Complete Unknown’, with apologies to all the participants
‘Sylvie’ equals ‘Suze’, for the purposes of reality
With some words from the song of the same name by Johnny Cash
...the new dawn’s magic, Wednesday’s sorcery
that haunts this earthly city’s cracks and peaks
with words to tie you down or set you free,
to liberate those lemons, dogs and freaks.
In Greystone, Woody shines but cannot speak
of all he’s been and all that he has done,
while Pete recounts the wonders that he seeks
and Johnny simply laughs and gets his gun.
Now Bobby rides electric wheels for fun
as Sylvie weeps for what she helped create,
yet Joan cannot regret what is to come ‒
a whole wide world to circumnavigate.
She whispers softly ‘just fuck off and sing’.
She knows the hope and loss that Thursday brings...
RJT
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