From a collection of sonnets written by the artist Arlice Stadler Siegel in the 1970’s.
SONNET 1
JUST LIKE AN EVENING STAR WHOSE BRILLIANCY
SURPASSES ALL THE REST, SHE STANDS SUPREME
AMONG HER SEX AND ALL MORTALITY;
BUT SHE’S BEYOND MY REACH UNLESS I DREAM.
SO FAIR A ONE I’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE–
I OFTEN PAUSE AND IN A DAZE ADMIRE
HER GRACEFUL STYLE AND BEAUTY, AND ADORE
HER, WISHING THAT SHE’LL GRANT MY HEART’S DESIRE.
LAST NIGHT I SWEETLY SLUMBERED, AND I DREAMED
SHE CAME TO ME AND SAID SHE LOVES ME TOO–
A LOVELY MOON WAS SHINING AND IT SEEMED
THAT THE IMPOSSIBLE SOMETIMES COMES TRUE.
I WAS ABOUT TO KISS HER BENEATH THE MOON;
BUT MORNING DAWNED, AND I AWOKE TOO SOON.