This painful pantoum illustrates the form’s ability to convey a story. Natalie Diaz’s abecedarian also appears on this site: Natalia Diaz, Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Reservation.
Her pantoum,”My Brother at 3 am” is here:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56355/my-brother-at-3-am
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