Protector #2 Your Personal Amulet
This sonnet is your personal amulet
To be worn in instance of need
Or constantly held in the mind
Occurring here and elsewhere at this moment
This sonnet is sent without cunning
To cull a particular phrase from your lips
To enlist another protector
In this age of malcontent benefactors
Against an ironclad schooner
Feudal kingdom
Dismemberment by jubilant crowds
Strangely indifferent faces
Heat and dust besides
Suicide implicating others
Copyright Credit: Laynie Browne, “Protector #2 Your Personal Amulet” from Daily Sonnets. Copyright © 2007 by Laynie Browne. Reprinted by permission of Counterpath Press.
Source: Daily Sonnets (Counterpath Press, 2007)