[Catherine Tufariello]

To respond to the suggestion made by Kate, and seconded by others: I will post thirteen sonnets, instead of twelve, and there will be three new "medalists" at the end as well. I understand from Susan that the reappearance of this sonnet was indeed the result of a bookkeeping error or failure in memory on the poet's part, as Chris guessed. I'm happy to have had the chance to comment on such a fine poem, but no one else will lose a finalist slot because I did so.

Carry on! I'm enjoying these discussions very much. And Gregory, as long as I'm here: you're absolutely right that my grammar analysis was faulty, and much as I would like to attribute the error to national differences, I'm afraid I must take the blame. I treated the verb as if the hunter were lying down in the brush, instead of laying down his sack. My bad! (Do they say that in the U.K.?)

[Janice D. Soderling]

I remember this poem. I have been thinking about it and I will bet some stale doughnuts that the author has revised it to deal with some of the critical points from before.

It is not exactly the poem that I remember from an earlier bake-off, it is revised and improved.

But I have been wrong before. Once.