Portrait of Hamlet in Repose

See how the firmament loosens
like a clod of earth                how the horizon

            crackles like two skulls wrapped in velvet

Microreview: Sharmila Cohen and Paul Legault, The Sonnets

Adaptations that preserve Shakespeare’s wit and carpe diem vulgarity.

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