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Beautiful…

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Your own stairway to your heaven.

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Repetition of lines reminds of riding backwards on a train , a return to moments spent and regained.

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Hypnotic. I love the movement.

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Enjoyed this. I had never heard about a triolet.

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Wow, so cool. This really gives me the feeling of traveling, of going from one mode of transportation to another. The way it jumps back and forth between repeating lines and unique lines is just so representative of how consciousness feels sometimes. Thanks for this.

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Never heard of a Triolet

Beautiful poem

Beautiful place

Never been to Mount Royale Chalet

Make work government project

1932

McGill University lies below

And the storied

And strangely evil

Allan Memorial Institute

Home of the psychic driving

The CIA sleep experiments

Where after being treated

My friend

Shot himself in the head

For the second time

Poet

Peter Dale Scott

Spent some time

There too

Triolet

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I feel the rocking of the train, the shared touch, the pain of saying good-bye. This writing rhythm is new to me, but I love it. It felt like it wrapped around my shoulders when I read it. Very nice, Jonathan!

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You know, I normally don't like this form because it's so repetitive. But somehow, three of them in a row transforms it – the rhythm really works with your choice of subject. Thanks for making me like it!

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There's so much energy in this form! Even when the words are a little somber, it reads in my mind like a little song.

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Nice. I climbed those steps and visited the chalet this summer, my first time to Montreal. Encountered a lively groundhog on the way. It's a great spot. Love your triolets.

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