"Sonnet to Dead Reckoning," a response to Nathan Lynch's sculpture installation "Dead Reckoning" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
"Here I am, at my point of departure. I am a poet, so I’ve written a sonnet, 14 lines of thought, composed over the last 14 days in reference to time and place and the title of Nathan’s sculptures, “Dead Reckoning.” Nathan begins, he says, by “rolling out the clay into ¾-inch-thick slabs, like floppy sections of plywood or heavy thick fabric.” As a poet navigator, I’m beginning with a structure of 14 lines, which feels sturdier than aiming for a distant and invisible point on an empty plain." Full text published by OmniVerse.