Next Line, Please Line Eight: It's up to you!

The American Scholar is on line seven of its crowd-sourced sonnet, thanks to readers' clever contributions. David Lehman recognizes runners-up and now includes a winner's circle in his weekly posts. Suggest line eight for Next Line, Please by Monday, June 24 (You must post your line at the American Scholar site.

Here is the sonnet to date:

How like a prison is my cubicle,

And yet how far my mind can freely roam

From gaol to Jerusalem, Hell to home.

Freedom ends or starts with a funeral.

Say what must die inside that I may not

Cast down this die and cross the Rubicon

Thence to the true hell: the heat of Tucson

David Lehman explains his choice and sets up for line 8 here.

-- sdh

Comments

[asiatil]

I thrashed between these places and these slots

[Dani]

brazen, across my shoulders. This day is

[Stacey]

asiatil and brazen: In order for your line to be considered, you have to post it on the American Scholar site.