shrouded mother gods (amber fat, ivy fat)—a tilt—
iris (cough), oat (hunt), lupine (hurt)—solo: soft melody
of touch to churn cunt (oh red area)—ovary ode / star
verse—augur says boyruin / bootlust—inlay (doe
effigy or mature buck, bone / steel)—
imperfect boyhoods—rib, ulna, serenity
of punched tit—a mere ache—fence / banquet / acid sea—
juicy orgy union (i was ouch / tuft)—
lechery: ostentatious berry gush—i sorrow—
i glumly syrup—i mauve frothy—i eat eye / root—
body without ego cult—oh to alloy / twin
myself—poor reconfigurations—folded
mothwing—labial hit—hot guise to awe—
i loam or bell, ritually prone—bluest ewe.

Note by the Author on the Construction of the Text:
These poems, what I call “divinations,” were created using an online anagramming tool and the source text of Shakespeare’s sonnets. The rule I set for myself was that I had to anagram line-by-line, so each line of the divination has the same letters in a one-to-one relationship as the corresponding line in the Shakespearean sonnet.

Published May 2nd, 2021

Trevor Ketner is the author of [WHITE] (University of Georgia Press, 2021) selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Forrest Gander. They have been published in The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Brooklyn Rail, New England Review, Ninth Letter, West Branch, Pleiades, Diagram, Foglifter, and elsewhere. Their essays and reviews can be found in The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, and Lambda Literary. A 2020 Lambda Literary Fellow, they have been a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow for The Poetry Project (selected by Wayne Koestenbaum), and a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellow. They hold an MFA from the University of Minnesota and live in Manhattan with their husband.

Vinna Begin is an artist born in West Java, Indonesia and based in Montréal, Canada. Begin earned a BA from Bandung Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia and an MFA from the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco, California. Her work has been exhibited globally, including exhibitions in New York City, San Francisco, Montréal, and Seoul. More of Begin’s work can be viewed on her Instagram and website. Begin’s prints and paintings can purchased through Mothflower, PaperView, and Sears Peyton Gallery.