Rick's Sonnet Number One

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by Wynn Wagner III                             10/1/95



Right there -- on your arm for all the world to see --

A monument to feelings from your past

Proclaims your love with no uncertainty,

And marks your life with him to last and last.

Indelibly marked as love, or was it hope

For a nest and a picket fence -- as such, your dream?

The artist and his ink mistook the scope

And drew an echo, not a contract redeemed.

Now you've found your way into my life,

But is it love or hope?  I cannot tell.

I think it's love for the craftsman's pointed knife

Or ink can't draw my feelings for you well.

  For no mere emblem have you put on my heart.

  It's very shape is the forum for your art.