August 29, 2025
A Villanelle

There's Something Wrong


There's something wrong with my biology,
a flaw inside my complicated mind,
to make me want to write a trilogy. 

Conceptually, it is a symphony,
six movements without meter, without rhyme;
there's something wrong with my biology

that shapes a story from soliloquies.
There must be depths that I have yet to mine
to make me want to write a trilogy. 

Analogous, like all analogies,
I cannot see my neurons, yet I find
there's something wrong with my biology.

The scan came back, my toxicology
and technically I'm poisoned by these lines
that make me want to write a trilogy.

Possessed, it seems, by strange vocabulary
that nags, cajoles, intimidates and whines;
there's something wrong with my biology
to make me want to write a trilogy.