Hex

Prompt: Write a poem that begins with the last thing you can remember someone saying to you yesterday. The form is Nonet--a 9-line poem with 9 syllables in the first line, 8 syllables in the second line, 7 syllables in the third line, continuing to count down to one syllable in the final (ninth) line.

I never had to put the pins in;
that did not seem necessary
of this imagined hexing
in our year of anguish.
He knew what he'd done,
tortured himself
till the day
he died,
nailed.