“Horizon’s Child”

Decades ago, there was a (not very good) made-for-TV movie about a world cut in half, one side always daytime, the other always night. I can’t remember its title, but it gave me the idea of writing my own story in a world like that, for which I wrote about three thousand words of fragments . . . and then proceeded to never do anything with them again.

But then, during a poetry challenge, one of my fellow poets wrote a quatern double: a poem where the first line of the first stanza repeats on a later line of subsequent stanzas until it reaches the bottom, and the last line of that stanza moves upward in turn until it reaches the top. And that form made me think of my ancient divided-world idea, which was never likely to turn into a novel — but maybe it could produce a poem? For which the quatern double might be the ideal form?

The result will soon be published in 4LPH4NUM3R1C!