"The Sin Sonnets (A Redouble)" by Amy Newman

Pride A poem to hold bold ideas of free will should use a form once supple and elastic; perhaps the rules of sonnet are so drastic fulfilling them might render free will still.

Yet, if in forming mortals, one consents to cage the sin of Pride within constraints, one could avoid Icarus’s complaints.

His father’s crafting he misrepresents: It was divinity of wax and feather, to liberate them from the Minotaur, from maze’s curbing form. His thoughtful words, “Avoid the sun,” might have kept them together.

But pride provided pride, for son to soar too briefly in the infinite of birds.