Shown here is a pretty well maincured and decorated stone sign at the River Oaks Golf Course in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, where I recently played in a tournament. It stands right in front of the practise driving range. On it is a reminder that steel spikes, or cleats , are no longer welcome on the course. Here I'm just speculating on how pretty that stone sign is.

This poem is a Sestina Sonnet.
A Sestina is unusual in that it doesn't use rhyme, but instead uses the same words repeated in differnet sequences for each stanza. Normally, the Sestina has 6 repeated words sequences over six verses and a closing Tercet that uses all six words. In order to accomodate a Sonnet, it has been modified to have 4 words ending each line of a Quatrain repeated over three verses, with a closing cuplet that incorporates the four key words. So, if you identify the four words with the letters A,B,C, and D, the word sequence for the Sonnet is:

ABCD DCAB BADC (BC)(DA)

For this poem, I chose the 4 Words as:
A - stone
B - strange
C - grown
D -range

This photograoh was taken by the author himself on July 11, 2015.

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