Aught, no. 1 (1997)

Chris Piuma

ConsteLlated Sonnets III,VII, XLIX,LXXIX,CXXXI, and CLXIX

III.

Look             ,
                                      another;
                               not         ,
                           ,              mother.
                         whose
             tillage                 ?
Or
                ,    stop          ?
                           ,     she
      back                              :
        through
Despite                                 .
       thou     ,                     ,
          ,     thine                     .

VII.


  !                                 light
                         , each
Doth                                  ,
        with                         ;
    having                                   ,
                        in               ,
Yet                                    ,
Attending                         ;
                            ,      weary    ,
            age,                        ,
        , 'fore        ,
         low                           :
   thou,                              ,
                 ,             get      .

XLIX.


                 , if                    ,
                      frown              ,
When                                     ,
          that                          ;
                  when
                                          eye,
         ,                          it    ,
Shall                                ,-
                     I
Within                                 ,
                                uprear,
   guard                               :
                 thou                          ,
      why                              .

LXXIX.


 ,                       you         ,
        a                                 ,
                          spends              ,
                      ,             your     !
                    ,             ocean   ,
                                     bear,
              inferior
                                 appear.
                                  up       ,
       he                                   ;
   being        ,                      ,
                                  pride:
                           cast     ,
                  ; my                  .

CXXXI.


  ,                      that            ,
                             thy     ,
       I'll        ,
          restore,                       :
                 ,                 be     ,
    thou                            ;
           but
                                 doth     .
                   beauty               ,
           ,                          use,
        a                               ;
So                                   .
           lost;                          :
   pays          ,                      .

CXLIX.


           by          ,                :
                      advantage      ,
                      fire
          valley-fountain               ;
      borrow'd
  dateless            ,                ,
                    bath,
                maladies                 .
                                     new-fired,
                                       breast;
 ,            ,     help                ,
                , a                      ,
                 :          for
                    fire-                 .

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