Subject: Startup Lockdown May 11, 2020 To: US Dear Everyone, It’s been a long time since we have talked. I hope you and yours are well and good (I really mean that with all the love in my heart). Things for me are ‘good’. I can’t say great because sometimes they are extremely bad and sometimes theyContinue reading “Dispatch #028”
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Dispatch #026
Dream By Marilyn J. Dykstra I didn’t go I didn’t come To see my mom although I’d been asked Many times before. She always revived To live another sunrise Another birthday. Why wouldn’t this week be the same? No, no, I didn’t go. An attendant said That a week before Mom shoutedContinue reading “Dispatch #026”
Dispatch #027
77 Days and Counting By Jan Holliday How do we measure this Pandemic supermarket lines the bar meter how much bathroom tissue on the supermarket shelves numerating faith it will end sometime or is it the number of bathroom tissues hidden on the top shelf of the garage like the whiskey bottlesContinue reading “Dispatch #027”
Dispatch #025
MY CIRCLE By Liz Cahill going on a silent retreat mapping all the tasks my brain has to complete thank my future self skip songs move fast or fast enough before the fruit in the Bell Jar rots Craigslist white board bought a year ago tomato and bread dinner plans post-it executives park circles inContinue reading “Dispatch #025”
Dispatch #024
RUNNING By Rose Heredia I don’t remember the first time I laced up my sneakers, strapped on my iPod and hit the pavement. I only remember the sweat dripping from my forehead and bridge of my nose. The power in my legs as I sprinted the last block to my Williamsburg, Brooklyn apartment. The thirstContinue reading “Dispatch #024”
Dispatch #023
3 Poems | Pandemic Advice | Strange Spring | Stay-at-Home By Vivian Wagner Pandemic Advice Buddha knocked on my door this morning and from a safe distance told me not to worry. “We have nothing to start with, so nothing to lose,” he said, miming a hug before turning away and disappearing down Continue reading “Dispatch #023”
Dispatch #013
2 Poems By Caitlin Krause explaining to my dog about coronavirus she doesn’t understand anything about this time except maybe the joy that I have become her new best friend always around, always beside her in a way neither of us expected I find myself crawling on all fours, tongue lolling out, my playfulContinue reading “Dispatch #013”
Dispatch #011
Cold Gin and a Pandemic By Georgina Marie April 27, 2020 I’m writing this on Monday April 27, 2020 and I had to Google when the Shelter in Place in my town began. It was March 19th. The days have been blurring together so fiercely that I seemed to forget when all of this began. Continue reading “Dispatch #011”
Dispatch #010
Quarantine Haynaku By: Maiana Minahal Weeping, fearing doorknobs and shared elevators. 4/9/20 * My quarantine window Faintly smelling bleach, counting unmasked pedestrians. 4/25/20 * Maiana Minahal Poet, interdisciplinary artist, educator Author of Legend Sondayo (Civil Defense Poetry, 2009) Assistant Professor, English and Writing Kapi’olani Community College Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dispatch #009
Dispatch #009 #dispatchesfromquarantine #teacher #pandemic Then there was quarantine
