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The Companions is a seven page visual-narrative short which was developed from an original poem written in a form called the “sestina”, which is derived from the Latin sextus, which means “sixth”. The structure of this unique form is rigid, but challenging. It has six unrhymed stanzas of six lines each in which the words at the ends of the first stanza’s lines recur in a rolling pattern at the end of all the other lines. The sestina then concludes with a tercet (three-line stanza) that also uses all six end-words, two to a line.
I felt that the imagery and tone coming from my sestina attempt would make a strange and compelling translation into a graphic story!
Unreleased, pending publication in Mortal Mirror. Seeking publication.
Copyright 2002, 2004 John Ashton Golden