The Rose - Ariana Reines Crime Sonnets to Orpheus

Sonnets to Orpheus

Cheers to rolling dice and raising glasses

and her alliance with the rebel group

nourishing and full of flavour

Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of critical race theory and xenophobic panics about migration

The Rose - Ariana Reines Crime Sonnets to OrpheusThe award winning poet reckons with feminine archetypes, erotic love, and the shifting boundary between power and surrenderFury is very lustfulA body concealing its heart's desireHas a certain textureA tang or an edge if you willThat the openhearted cannot match& when exactly does the deceitfulHeart open? At climax. from `The Hanged Man'The Rose navigates the intersection of power and surrender. Drawing on the history of `romance' as the troubadours