On Thursday this week we welcomed her home
—To daughter and dog, mama, to me, wife—
From surgery Monday in hospital.
It's stressful when your mama or your wife
Has to go for something in hospital
And a relief to all when she comes home.
It's tiring to visit at hospital
And afterward to return alone home
And tiring to be there, too, for your wife.
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A trestina is a brief form of sestina, of my own devising, in which three (rather than six) end-words appear in a prescribed order in the poem's title and its three three-line stanzas, as exemplified above for the words wife, home, and hospital.
Copyright © 2012 by Morris Dean
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