"Joan" originally appeared in the online journal LUCID RHYTHMS. The form is French Virelay from the French 'virer', "to turn or veer", a medieval French poetic form. The poem is meant to be chanted or sung twice and has interleaving or chain rhyme scheme (a b a b b a b a a c a c c a c a) with lines of varying length. The title is the 1st line of the poem.