A Poetry Sporadical of Repeating Forms
A Poetry Sporadical of Repeating Forms
Change me. So I don’t go back the same,
so I won’t just repeat the same mistake
that loses me what’s wagered on our game,
change me so I don’t. Go back the same
re-routed detour, back the way I came,
then show me how to turn and when to brake.
Change me. So I don’t go back the same,
so I won’t just repeat the same mistake,
take me elseways. If I must go back,
change me. So I don’t go back the same
direction, same velocity, same track,
take me elseways if I must. Go back
to find what may have prompted your attack
against whatever end I’d thought my aim—
take me elseways. If I must go back,
change me so I don't go back the same.
Sara Gwen Weaver is a young novitiate of repeating forms currently writing and blogging in Austin, Texas. Here is how she describes her linked double triolet: The major repeton of the first triolet returns as the minor repeton of the second triolet. The result almost echoes the tap-tap-tap of a villanelle but in contrast to the left-right-left-right marching out of the repetons in a villanelle, this linked double triolet gives its repetitions more of a woven loop.