3 Sonnets

Well, Alan, "Topiary" shouldn't work as a sonnet in my super anal head, but in some bizarre way it turned out rather remarkable.  Why?  I think it's the incredibly powerful summation -- technically only a very soft volte, but it still closes the poem strongly.

I like Caravaggio -- I think I have this thing about seriously flawed artists.  Or maybe, seriously human artists and their amazing capacity to create things which transcend their own humanity.  That all these things -- the sum of the artist and his object -- are poured into a single, technically static piece of art -- it sometimes defies description.  Maybe that's why we're so obsessed with trying to describe it.