Centerpiece of a seven sonnet series commissioned from the poet by the Crocker Art Museum, oldest in the American West.

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Recorded Reading (1:00): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ohe9nfksyrsf03921qa3m/O-This-be-Love.mp3?rlkey=dy3wu3uxx5dtwapki23vvvw01&dl=0

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O This be Love

O this be love, wherein one single frown
Unkind allusion, or a darkened brow
Do all the lover’s hopes bring crashing down
Nor any gleam of happiness allow

O this be love, which waits upon a smile
As on the outcome of a worldwide war,
For whom one glance may eas’ly reconcile
Any divergence which hath gone before

O this be love, when hell and heaven wait
Upon the pleasure of the best beloved
Who, ransomless, the heart holds confiscate
In iron hand, all softly velvet gloved

Ay this be love: the best, and eke the worst
Of earthly dramas here below rehearst

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Until removal of the stalker/targeter/vandal/arsonist following her allows her to approach any landlord ~ even for a private parking space ~ and to begin once again to create professional connections and to rebuild her life, this poet presently lives homeless and at a fraction of her nation’s poverty level ~ still working to contribute to her society, however, seven days a week.

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