Photo of my Bob Dylan-inspired-and-dedicated sonnet “A bent rainbow” from my second chapbook, “Shaking the Wind.” “A bent rainbow.” For Dylan and for Dover The light, dying, dinged the rainclouds that had rolled in above Dover and had closed up like an iron vest and then would not part adter the rain let up. If the sun had just not gone so far down it may have given something more to us than one seven-shade beam to hold back the storm’s remnants—and we saw that from beneath the windows in the consolation of the twilight falling. That’s it. And then in our desolation we saw that was bent—gravity had got it too.

Late posting this out for the day itself, but #HappyBirthday #BobDylan

A sonnet from my second chapbook and featuring multiple Dylan allusions. I was living in Dover, NH, that summer—I went out after a rain, Bob’d just won the Nobel, I saw the rainbow—the poem just was. #84years #14lines