[Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,]

divine hyphenate stag—i eye silty omen— twink / twigthin homo shard—easy, tender mint leaves—a cuntpink, lamb horn (bound)—grove / tiny, plum pit—working a hurt, honey pot— transmoon hunghunt—ovary tide—fennel, / beets (hot heft)—she goes back—cemetery tree, its feverlather—that horsethin ulna stunt (try hot shethrob)—saw tall god of teeth eye me in gay bar—the touch of wet moss—see notch meat heat relentlessly—hew / tie both— ring fern to echo geometric starhum / nude moon— tie ivy—ply key—pear’s thin, taut rind / sweet rib—full waterlily shine—bask (ache to cake)—count pill total—halfhymn ladyhex.

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Artist’s Statement

These poems, what Ketner calls “divinations,” were created using an online anagramming tool and the source text of Shakespeare’s sonnets. The first line of the corresponding Shakespearean sonnet is borrowed as the title for each divination. The rule the poet set for themself was that they had to anagram line-by-line, so each line of the divination has the same letters in a one-to-one relationship as the corresponding line in the Shakespearean sonnet.

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