Once I realized that I’d written “músk ănd tĕstóstĕròne” in my piece on “Scent and masculinity”, I saw that the double dactyl needed a poetic home. The poetic constraints on the Double Dactyl form: … a verse form, also known as “higgledy piggledy,” purportedly invented by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal in 1961, but having a … Continue reading Double dactylic sniff