Poetry
Winter/Spring
2024

This Is Not a Villanelle

life is
as if
    Elizabeth Bishop wrote it,
and the poem is on repeat repeat repeat:

loss, a violent form.
loss, of violence formed.
loss, a violation of form /

meaning

form meaning brings
(and grief knows no form).

This is not a villanelle,
but I am still losing

keys, kingdoms,

[meaning]

and

Mastery.