Sonnetation

Carson Gardner is an enthusiastic amateur poet. He did not begin seriously writing poetry until after a shocking grief in young adulthood. He has been writing poetry now for nearly 40 years. He has had poems purposefully published in local venues, and on very rare occasions accidentally published in national venues. He had fleeting and unremunerative success, as a lyricist, decades ago; helping garner a young folksinger a national award. But Gardner had obsessively avoided the unsettling ch...