Fun with form, thanks to Jeff Knight.

Sonnet for Salomé

I said to you then that “you complete me.”

Though cliché, and stolen from a movie

it nevertheless, remains true today.

In the beginning, I was skeptical

convinced there were hooks attached to strings and

barbed wire fences on the horizon.

As you sleep, I look for signs of regret

and find only lust and satisfaction.

Afterwards, your scent remains in my ear

reverberating through fingers and palms

a pulsing freestyle beat that curls my tongue.

I lick my lips as a genuflection –

you linger sweetly like ripe mango juice

and I savor every thick, sticky drop.

NOTE: A real sonnet is a fourteen-line poem, either eight lines (octave) and six lines (sextet) or three quatrains of four lines and an ending couplet. Often attributed to Petrarch, the form – keeping the basic fourteen lines – was modified by such poets as Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton.

About Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez works in publishing by day, world domination by night. Over the years he’s lived in Staten Island and South Beach Miami; served in the Jehovah’s Witnesses, US Army, and Dennis Kucinich’s ‘04 Presidential Campaign; won poetry slams, founded a reading series, co-authored a book of poetry, and self-published another; prefers Pumpkin and India Pale Ales, Buffalo Trace and Four Roses Bourbons, and Dona Paula Shiraz Malbec. He’s a devout Mets fan from the Bronx now living in New Jersey, and has a beautiful wife and two amazing kids.

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