Day 1

2023 NaPoWriMo begins apace

So the first day of November (that was Wednesday, yesterday) I already failed, in that I had way too much going on and then was emotionally overwhelmed by same, enough that I couldn’t write a new poem along with all my other non-fic non-sense of the day. BUT!

I wasn’t about to admit defeat so soon, and so instead of creating a fresh poem, I shared a poetic artifact I’d salvaged from having been used as a bookmark in my copy of the Trident retrospective book. (Besides, just the day before, I’d re-posted my poem ‘Halloween,’ in its orange form that t’Art made it into when they published it. So. I feel like I made up for this failure two-fold.)

It’s also the background image of this NaPoWriMo area. It’s a shared poem in two parts that both me and the late great poet Jack Collom wrote together back in 2001. The first section is in Q&A form, and the second is an acrostic, Jack’s specialty. This is the typed copy he created from our longhand scrawl—he always did this, as I’ve described before in Zuko’s Musings. I don’t remember which words are his, which mine, at this far remove, either.

So. Here it is, in image form, as all I have is a hard copy left. Let me know if you’d like a digital re-typed transcription that’s more bot-voice-friendly, and I’ll be happy to bang that out.

Day 1: Two Tracks