The Three Visions
First Vision
Faerie enchantment, stroke of trickery
in anagrams enciphered what awe wrought.
One tastes the clever portent yet cannot
cook up the wedded, shrewd duplicity.
Same old walled-in Oulipian, I see
I'm soon a voodoo Merlin, rapt in thought,
defeated, dazed by this fake Camelot,
editing wedding details poured on me.
Compiled Shakespearean poet hones wild task,
jotting down two swell poems, as I mask
one common site for each, a letter-terse
homeroom the potted muses deem some curse.
I fidget to dash off my wonder. Quick,
I project flowers elsewhere, oh so slick!
Second Vision
To show me how her wicked project loops,
Deceit had managed to project her reel
against my bedroom wall, a wound of leer
scarring within me as she wound the spool.
And I decided, for the sake of mood,
to serve aperitifs: "It's sake time."
I drank and prayed Agape would emit
haze from her scented mouth agape with doom.
Onscreen, the gods, it seems, desert yet keep
scattering sand clouds like some desert wolf.
I lie to sense the movie's content flow
too quickly to take form. Content to peek,
I wonder why, and while a minute peels,
I slip from the minute account and sleep.
Third Vision
Fortuna's echoed legends are foretold
when, one odd meteor zooming past the place,
entropic time endears me with the cold
command of every edge inside the space.
What wonder trick would pesky phantoms see
inside the queer, true, deeper room, as they
toil with the softer deck of wood for me
I seek the luck some of the Greeks display.
Two poems led in to deem a tangled fate,
in abject echo of our disrepair,
I jot a clock (I contemplate and wait),
as letters swap and words dissolve in air.
The muses, plucking what tremendous moon,
will ink enigma so that I may swoon.
Technical Note: This tripartite work explores the intersection of constraint and creativity through three interconnected sonnets. Each vision contains exactly the same letters in the same quantities, demonstrating how form can be endlessly reconfigured while meaning transforms through anagrammatic rearrangement.