“At the Sea-Coast”

Brittany N. Jaekel created “At the Sea-Coast” from William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (first performed in 1602). Please click here to read.

About the poem and the process of composing it, Brittany N. Jaekel writes:

This found poem comes from the beginning of Act II of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The first scene begins at “the sea-coast.”  Sebastian and Antonio are considering their next steps, and I noticed Sebastian’s opening lines used several instances of “my ______” and “your ______.” I gathered the instances I liked and formatted them into a brief poem.

In its use of Twelfth Night as source material, this poem reflects our invitation to poets to incorporate 12 (on the occasion of our twelfth volume) in some way in their work.