The Grapevine Art & Soul Salon
PRESENTATIONS: JONATHAN MICHAEL KNOTT
Jonathan Knott, Host of The Grapevine's Tracking History column, also writes reviews and features. Many of the photographs on the site were taken by Jonathan, whose studies include history, biology, psychology, film, and creative writing. He also graduated from Georgia Film School and took Warner Herzog's Film Master Class online. He is a member of the Atlanta Writers Club, and this poem was one of three finalists in their recent competition for the Natasha Trethewey prize in poetry.
NEWS UPDATE! Jonathan Michael Knott was one of only 27 finalists in a field of 5,539 poets who submitted a humorous poem (this one) to Winning Writers' Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest.
Sonnet to Soap and Wax
Emerging from the household cleaning aisle
with lemon oil, a mop, a toilet brush
I see you palm some clustered grapes and smile:
pomegranate red, I say, of hair so lush
a face so pale among the lettuces.
Entranced, I follow you through bread and cheese
and juices tart and sweet and wet. Who says
a grocery store is not a place to please
the senses has not met you yet beside
the scented candle jars, and eye to eye
inhaled with you, unable to decide
rum or cinnamon or rose to try.
A fantasy of love engenders hope,
steals moments even in the aisle of soap.
To read more pieces by Jonathan, go to his writer's page by clicking on Contributing Artists and his name.