A NaPo Invitational

 (For Antonia)

Send up the bat signal!

Send down baited hooks!

Have it screamed on the airwaves

and printed in books!

Whatever your calling,

get calling you fools!

We must school the bank tellers

and tell all the schools!

We must shout it aloud

without missing one ear

that someone is missing,

someone isn’t here.

Perhaps it’s the Covid?

Perhaps it’s the Trump?

Perhaps she’s just having

a poetic slump

but NaPo is happening

and I sort of worry

that maybe Antonia’s

in no sort of hurry.

So let’s get pro-active!

Let’s get on the case!

Let’s hire Dido Harding

then let’s Test and Trace!

I’m missing the lady

who’s missing November

so I’ve written this ludicrous

missive to send her.

11/11/20