PoemAcrossAmerica

  Pandemic reminded me of Who I Am:  easy being alone, cautious, ever a witness, unafraid, grateful.      Islene Runningdeer

Virus turns pandemic as we take shelter in our homes, Dry lightening turns to fierce wildfire as we flee our homes leaving dishes unwashed in the sink. Pandemic becomes apocalyptic as we sift through the ashes of what was and find our way through the myriad plagues of 2020, we search and find goodness as we mourn the stories lost in the debris. Lindsay Wasserman Boulder Creek,  CA

Lonely, lonely, lonely, and more lonely--Oh! Let me be a firefly signaling in the forever night!      Virginia Bell and  Ruth Kravitz  

I shed a tear Into the Bay, It’s surface viscous  Flat and grey. And this I wish  But cannot see A way to heal  Humanity. I promise though All I can do To be a better me For you. -- Wes and Willy Reddick Belfast, Maine

As an aging wallflower I watch this dance of death...still signing every petition, praying every prayer, singing every song. Hilary Young Los Angeles

The pandemic loomed within us, coiled like a serpent around our collective mind

Her last breath ended  my understanding of normal six months before the rest of the world would come to taste the merciless appetite of grief.    - Gayelan Tietje-Ulrich