"Solace in Solitude" by Alexey Adonin
Accidental Sonnet by Brett Elizabeth Jenkins
My love for you is a pair of swans
interlocking their necks like bendy straws
and flying up together to the roof of a barn
to coo into each others’ dirty feathers.
No, my love for you is more like a pickup
truck whose tailgate has come unlatched
on the turnpike and is flapping energetically
in the wind. Your love for me is a treetop
on fire in the distance, a scurry of squirrels
squirming contagiously at the base.
Your love for me is a natural disaster, no,
a firework mishap. But no, our love
is a single brilliant canary, struck clean
in half by lightning.
interlocking their necks like bendy straws
and flying up together to the roof of a barn
to coo into each others’ dirty feathers.
No, my love for you is more like a pickup
truck whose tailgate has come unlatched
on the turnpike and is flapping energetically
in the wind. Your love for me is a treetop
on fire in the distance, a scurry of squirrels
squirming contagiously at the base.
Your love for me is a natural disaster, no,
a firework mishap. But no, our love
is a single brilliant canary, struck clean
in half by lightning.
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins lives and writes in Minneapolis. Look for her work in The Sun, AGNI, Beloit Poetry Journal, Mid-American Review, and elsewhere.
Alexey Adonin is a Jerusalem based abstract-surrealist artist. His works have been showcased locally and internationally and are held in private collections around the world. Alexey uses a unique and beautiful technique in which he layers oil paints solely on top of one another to create a mystical, transparent look. His philosophy stems from the idea that one's reality is made up of what they believe it to be. Alexey uses his art as a platform to express his profound ideas about reality, humanity, and their intertwined behaviors. You can view more at www.alexeyadoninart.com.
