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Here is a non-traditional shakespearian / Italian sonnet (octet is shakespearian rhyme scheme; sestet is Italian rhyme scheme, all metrical rules broken). I wrote it about a year ago, after a week of >11 hour days, about about excessive overtime. I liked it enough that I revised it a bit and have even included it in some submission packets (no takers, lol). I thought of it in response to this prompt. Any thoughts on it would be welcome. I'm okay with being told it's not the prize-winning poem I think it might be, lol :)

Letter To A Route Named 2C

—confession of a UPS driver

You curve and dip among redwoods, show me slivers

of Pacific, of San Francisco Bay. Your fog weeps through needles, thick

and wild. Your dogs’ tails wag at gates and I deliver

treats to tongues. Your storms uproot your trees and slick

your driveways muddy. Your long roads curve to dead

ends backdropped by specks of breakers. Your calves slip under

their mamas’ bellies to watch me drive. Your sunset blisters red

among clouds. I love you when you encumber

me with too much of you. When muscles burn

with every stop. When curves darken. When boxes jumble

on shelves like pain. When I punch

the clock at nine at night. I fist bump coworkers who taught me turns

and numbers. Where to park to pick up fallen pieces. I fumble

my love. I love to touch things other hands have touched.

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