Farmer's Market Sonnets: Summer 2013 - Softcover

A collection of sonnets written in the winter of 2012-2013 for shoppers at the Berkeley and Oakland farmers' markets. Each sonnet was written on the spot for customers as they shopped at the farmers' markets, based on a custom theme of their choosing. Next to each sonnet is a short story of its genesis and the theme that brought it into being. Sample sonnets: Between Us We cannot hide from who or what we are; The bright desire that set the stars to spinning Beats still in our chests, speaking from afar Of why we're here, of what is still beginning. We move the spiral onwards when we give This sweet gift, that which also fills us up Like words fill up a page—the sound can't live Without the space, the tone without the lip, The soul without the form—these thoughts are love Observing love unfolding. We are words Spoken in night's deep vowels, the blank cove Where footsteps press and fade, the edge the blurs: The point where two are one, and all as well, The space between the hand, the sound, the bell. Into What's Beyond Will I die too, or am I just a figment Of universal wanderings, a moon Appearing here, disappearing, bright fragment In constant flux, the shaping of a dune By sandstorms, never meant to stay? What part Can I play, thinker that I am, in death? Does this just happen naturally, the art Of dissolution, or is it a breath I need to watch and understand to cease? How can I know it's wanted, losing self? Without a definition, is there peace And can I hold it, holding nothing else? I slip behind the sky and then return. It's where I'm not, while here, I tend to yearn.