American Sonnet, 11-17-18, For Iliana, Anastasia, & Laura

I’ve written this before

I’ve written

I don’t know where I begin

Where I begin

 

Writing/writer

The self and the act

The act on the self

Self on act/act on self

 

I picked up the notebook then

but it picked me up too

Out of silence out of stasis

 

I picked up what I couldn’t

Pick up

            and was taken away