Making Sense of Pandemic Era as a Writer – May 12, 2023 – So yesterday, May 11, was the day that Covid-19 Public Health emergency in the United States ended. I sit […]
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HOW TO BE HUMAN – Letting Go by Elisa Stancil From the early days of this sea change April 2020 Yesterday a package arrived from China, elastic I sourced from Etsy months […]
Dispatch #084
So Long to a Sorry Year by Barbara Kazdan I feel blah. Not sad. Not anything. Think I’ve depleted my reserve of good cheer. Which for me is saying a lot. All […]
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Third Wave by Brenda Gunn I stare at the sock and dust bunny peeking from just far enough under the couch; a solo Cheerio, strayed somehow from the breakfast table almost made […]
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Hallelujah by Rowena Choy Henry On the night before his inauguration I watched President-elect Biden and his wife and Vice President-elect Harris and her husband attend a ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial […]
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Winter 2021 Alien Nations by Gerard Sarnat i. Otherness Plague tanka Entering Year II, mid-septuagenarian’s grown weary spending precious time sequestered — not hugging/ kissing loved, dying. * ii. West […]
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Bald Rapunzel by Robert E. Petras Me—leaning over the balcony, Confined for a 14-day sentence To the garage apartment, Found guilty by nose swab, The negative positive of these times. My […]
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THE GUITAR MAN IN QUARANTINE by John Grey I’m wary of doorknobs and the breath of others but this wood I’d trust with my life. I’m nervous putting my hands most places […]
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Covid Pariah by Mark Tulin I am a Covid pariah, an uncomfortable outcast, an undesirable, a black crow, wild and untamed, solemn in a strange and foreign land where people don’t care […]
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Groundhog Day by Valerie Sopher after Ben Lerner the endless loop of living another sea-tossed sleep another morning lying in bed penciling in Sudoku squares another sheltering day of can’t get over […]
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