The poem reflects on a girl's upright nature and visible lust, as well as the poet thinking of her walking urgently beside billboards and missing opportunities while the urban world misses her mysterious allure. Imagery of the sky, birds, and summer are used alongside descriptions of the girl's heart and skin.

1. The upright nature of a girl, belied by
formless whirrs, signs of visible lust like the
density of skies, + the disappearing hour;
I think of you urgent + weak walking beside
billboards, missing out, flaking off in the
silence between 2 traxx, no tender riot
in yr geekheart [splice open + pulsating
in four different places whilst the summer
is blaring musty and lithe, awful shiny
skin + sick tune of birds germinating light
as a new kind of loudness] + the crude urban
cosmos misses you + is just passing the
time w/dirt + money + pouting in the
corner w/out your nocturno-suspicious lure.

2. Enjambment
The upright nature of a girl, belied by
formless , signs of visible lust like the
density of skies, + the disappearing hour;
I think of you urgent + weak walking beside
billboards, missing out, flaking off in the
silence between 2 traxx, no tender riot
in yr geekheart [splice open + pulsating
in four different places whilst the summer
is blaring musty and lithe, awful shiny
skin + sick tune of birds germinating light
as a new kind of loudness] + the crude urban
cosmos misses you + is just passing the
time w/dirt + money + pouting in the
corner w/out your nocturno-suspicious lure.

3. Caesura
The upright nature of a girl, belied by
formless whirrs, signs of visible lust like the
density of skies, + the disappearing hour;
I think of you urgent + weak walking beside
billboards, missing out, flaking off in the
silence between 2 traxx, no tender riot
in yr geekheart [splice open + pulsating
in four different places whilst the summer
is blaring musty and lithe, awful shiny
skin + sick tune of birds germinating light
as a new kind of loudness] + the crude urban
cosmos misses you + is just passing the
time w/dirt + money + pouting in the
corner w/out your nocturno-suspicious lure.

4. Hyperbole
The upright nature of a girl, belied by
formless whirrs, signs of visible lust like the
density of skies, + the disappearing hour;
I think of you urgent + weak walking beside
billboards, missing out, flaking off in the
silence between 2 traxx, no tender riot
in yr geekheart [splice open + pulsating
in four different places whilst the summer
is blaring musty and lithe, awful shiny
skin + sick tune of birds germinating light
as a new kind of loudness] + the crude urban
cosmos misses you + is just passing the
time w/dirt + money + pouting in the
corner w/out your nocturno-suspicious lure.

5. Antithesis
The upright nature of a girl, belied by
formless whirrs, signs of visible lust like the
density of skies, + the disappearing hour;
I think of you urgent + weak walking beside
billboards, missing out, flaking off in the
silence between 2 traxx, no tender riot
in yr geekheart [splice open + pulsating
in four different places whilst the summer
is blaring musty and lithe, awful shiny
skin + sick tune of birds germinating light
as a new kind of loudness] + the crude urban
cosmos misses you + is just passing the
time w/dirt + money + pouting in the
corner w/out your nocturno-suspicious lure.

6. Simile
The upright nature of a girl, belied by
formless whirrs, signs of visible lust like the
density of skies, + the disappearing hour;
I think of you urgent + weak walking beside
billboards, missing out, flaking off in the
silence between 2 traxx, no tender riot
in yr geekheart [splice open + pulsating
in four different places whilst the summer
is blaring musty and lithe, awful shiny
skin + sick tune of birds germinating light
as a new kind of loudness] + the crude urban
cosmos misses you + is just passing the
time w/dirt + money + pouting in the
corner w/out your nocturno-suspicious lure.

7. Sophie Robinson

8. Sophie Robinson
• Poetry artist in residence at the Victoria
and Albert Museum in London.
• Sonnet-I was written in November of 2008
as part of the collection The Reality Street
Sonnets.
• Researching a PhD in Poetry at the Royal
Holloway, University of London.