magamo

In order to write a sestina, you must start by being unsure, quickly switching from cold to hot to cold and to hot again, the temperature being like a cat in the Sahara desert at dusk. Sit on your porch at dusk, watch the clouds create their sestinas. As you watch, allow your cat beside you, her tongue lapping unsurely from a cup. Look up again, wonder if milk would be hot if left out. It is hot; There is a heat about dusk. Forget. Forget about the poem again, Look around. Everywhere, there are sestinas. Not just in the cool, unsure ripples your cat makes, the gentle clink clink your cat's teeth make as she tips h