Love this one - language and attitude, and the carefree way it swings back and forth between pentameter and hex and totally gets away with it because it is so...unselfconscious. What I particularly admire here is the way that a classical reference and a traditional form are married to completely contemporary sentiment and expression. And the closing couplet bangs it all shut! It's not only well done, but it's an intelligent poem.
Whodunnit? Sassy attitude toward life and meter, hawks and sparrows, uncomfortable with praise. I'd say Deborah Warren (if I guess Deborah on every sonnet, sooner or later I'll be correct).
Michael Cantor
[This message has been edited by Michael Cantor (edited March 18, 2003).]
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