Day 17 ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2022

Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt: “For today's prompt, write a mad poem.” Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: “This is a fun one – it’s a prompt developed by the comic artist Lynda Barry, and it asks you to think about dogs you have known, seen, or heard about, and then use them as a springboard into wherever they take you.” Yesterday, I announced that I was done with a first full draft of my aswang novel-in-poems but was open to any more poems that might show up. Well, today, with Thorson's dog prompt, a poem for the novel did show up. It occurred to me that the ending portion of the novel so far did not contain many poems about Malcolm, the aswang son . . . so, here we go, another aswang poem. Something you should know: Malcolm's late father was a shapeshifter, whose aswang form was a huge black dog. Also, another curtal sonnet today, mashing up the two prompts, as usual. Malcolm Meets a Black Dog Sitting out in front of the house, late night, trying to regain some peace, calm, after a long day helping Mama with patients . . . I suddenly sensed a big black dog right beside me. Somewhere nearby, talk, laughter, as the dog sat quietly, large, immense but not menacing, not a mad dog as I first feared. When I thought of my father, the dog gave me a look, strange and intense, then was gone. I felt in those haunting eyes                                       my father’s presence. —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.]             Image by labsafeharbor on Pixabay. Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ

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