I wrote this sestina during Holy Week, about the same time I assigned this form of poetry writing to a class of Comp 2 students.
Their results and responses inspired me, and their struggles did as well. Someone would come to class and say, This is hard or I really had to think on this. One student told another: Man, don’t wait til the last minute. This thing takes some time.
So, I decided to experience again what I often ask my students to do. The attention to the form was a discipline. The words came though. And, as often happens in life and writing and art, a simple action spurs us on to a new creation.
Easter Sestina:
agnestirrito 