February 13, 2013

Not a sonnet

Today's poem is a fourteen line poem with a turn in the last two lines. No it isn't rhymed, no it isn't iambic (purely). I still think it's a sonnet. It's also an ekphrasic poem, meaning that the subject matter is located in another media, either visual or sonic, and is in this case a painting by Francis Bacon. You can view the artwork at http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/4884

-A.J.

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