Protector #2 Your Personal Amulet

By Laynie Browne Laynie Browne

This sonnet is your personal amulet

To be worn in instance of need

Or constantly held in the mind

Occurring here and elsewhere at this moment

This sonnet is sent without cunning

To cull a particular phrase from your lips

To enlist another protector

In this age of malcontent benefactors

Against an ironclad schooner

Feudal kingdom

Dismemberment by jubilant crowds

Strangely indifferent faces

Heat and dust besides

Suicide implicating others

Source: Daily Sonnets (Counterpath Press, 2007)

Biography

Laynie Browne is the author of seven collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent publications include The Scented Fox, (2007, winner of the National Poetry Series), Daily Sonnets (2007) and Drawing of a Swan Before Memory (2005, winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series). Of Daily Sonnets Ron Silliman writes: “It’s a stunner and a delight. A pure dose of heady oxygen” and “. . . an icon for the generation of poets who . . .

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