… HOW TO WRITE A VILLANELLE. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The first line of one of the villanelle's I have written (For the Season) came to me as I was leaving my late friend Harold Boatrite's one Saturday morning, the day before the first Sunday of Advent. I think it was the third line that came next, before I reached the corner of his street. Hmm, I thought, there may be a villanelle there. the middle line of the first came to me as I walked, and I was off. I had finished it by day's end. That would have been in 2005. It appeared in Boulevard the following spring and the following Advent I first posted it here. I don't have an rukles for how to I write a poem. I just let them occur to me.
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