13 Sonetos

A sequence of lyric sonnets that traces longing, melancholy, and passionate desire through concentrated imagery. Intimate, confessional voices address unreciprocated love, abandonment, and betrayal while alternating religious and sensual motifs—lilies, violets, the sea, a waltz, funerary and nocturnal scenes—to probe memory and regret. The language shifts between tenderness and reproach, combining musical cadence with stark emotional outbursts, and repeatedly stages tension between sacred devotion and erotic impulse. Overall the poems compactly render despair, hope, and the persistence of longing in compressed, image-rich lines.