On my visit to Howard and Sherri I stopped by what may be the USA’s best used book store: Jim Reed Books (https://www.jimreedbooks.com/) in Birmingham, Alabama. Jim helped me find one of Uncle Bob’s works that I did not have.

A sestina (according to dictionary.com) is “a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.” 

My brain hurts just thinking through the definition. Wow! What a feat to write such a poem.

This poem appeared in Negative Capability, Vol IV, No III, Summer 1984.