[Petra Norr]

The sonnet invites the reader to fill in the gaps. So I made up my own story. The fresh-dug grave in the sestet is for the man who owns the Lexus. The narrator and his/her partner were so fed up with him that they killed him. They put the body in the Lexus and drove off with it to Malibu. Of course, we’re probably not meant to see the events in the sestet as “real” (the opening of the sestet seems to imply that). But nonetheless, I can still see the story unfolding like that.

I love the voice in the poem. The octave is very good, and the sestet opens so well. I like this sonnet a lot. In some ways it’s more remindful of free verse (and I don’t mean the irregular meter), but that’s fine by me.

[David Anthony]

I'm thinking the inanition is because he'd just finished disposing of Annette's body.

[Lance Levens]

Two poems in one is too subtle for me, but I did have a cousin who tried the octave with one of his ex's.