“Auden thought the triolet was too trivial a form to bother with…” –James Fenton

Practally dactally
W. H. Auden
Mastered his verse forms with
Scarcely a miss.

Some he found slight. There’s no
Abecedarius,
No triolet, and he
Didn’t write this.

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When I first started thinking about double dactyls I made a list of words and when I saw that James Fenton quote I knew I had a poem. I no longer recall what word got paired with Kevin E. Federline.

Reese Warner lives in Toronto and does things with computers for money. Reese’s poems have shown up in journals such as Asses of Parnassus, The Malahat Review, The Rotary Dial, The Dalhousie Review among others. For more information see http://pubs.reesewarner.com

Double Dactyl was first published in The Asses of Parnassus.

Photo: “W.H. Auden” by Cecil Beaton is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.