juno’s Reviews > Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets > Status Update

begging rescue, the loneliness of cool baptismal light / church on a childhood of Sundays—whitest walls / of virgin stucco, oblation — / the seduction of high desert heat / on my knees i drink the wine / my heart assumes the flesh of a two-year-old / thumps like waves rising in my chest / leaps into wonder, drowns

oh my GOD … insane ….