Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities. Olena Kalytiak Davis

Your Requirements, Lord. 'Spite Your Requirements, Lord,

      I Have Loved The Low Voltage Of The Moon, Lord,

      Until There Was No Moon Intensity Left, Lord, No Moon Intensity Left

      For You, Lord. I Have Loved The Frivolous, The Fleeting, The Frightful

      Clouds. Lord, I Have Loved Clouds! Do Not Forgive Me, Do Not

      Forgive Me LordandLover, HarborandMaster, GuardianandBread, Do Not.

      Hold Me, Lord, O, Hold Me

      Accountable, Lord. I Am

      Accountable. Lord.

      Lord It Over Me,

      Lord It Over Me, Lord. Feed Me

      Hope, Lord. Feed Me

      Hope, Lord, Or Break My Teeth.

      Break My Teeth, Sir,

      In This My Mouth.

       the unbosoming

      I have been a day boarder, Lord. I have preferred the table to the Bed.

      I have proffered, Lord, and I have profited, Lord, but little, but not. I was Bored,

      Lord, I was heavy, Lord. Heavy bored. Hopeless, Lord, hideous, Lord. Sexless.

      I was in love, Lord, but not with You. The nine malic moulds, Lord.