Pandemic Gratitudes Melissa Eleftherion Good air quality today A house and a job Simplified hysteria Kitten antics No fights today Enough money to pay the bills Warm bed Glad I’m not a […]
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Quarantine By: T.S. Rowell July 5 2020 When it began, for an uncertain duration this was to be a month of stillness two months of these same walls or maybe just one […]
Dispatch #044
3 Poems Kitty Costello Ode to Soap A repetitive acrostic Savior of all people Soothe our aching psyches Scrub our appendages pristinely Sluff off atrocious pathogens Secure our antiseptic perimeter Shelter our […]
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Two Poems By Cassandra Dallet Body Count Fourth of July July 2-4, 2020 The days are marked with death tolls infection rates blazing red states and a barrage of bomb-like fireworks San […]
Dispatch #042
By Peggy Morrison In this country, we live in an ironclad cultural box cast iron thick and immobile individualistic/tragically separate/competitive We can’t find our way to simple collective action for the common […]
Dispatch #041
2 Poems by Keith Mark Gaboury Italy Macguill, Dan. “Did Video Show Italian Army Trucks Transporting Coffins Amid COVID-19 Pandemic?: A Stark Illustration of the Tragic Impact Coronavirus Had on Parts of Italy in […]
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2 Poems By: Fizza Abbas Lockdown Chef All that greens is not mint As the lockdown began, two wooden doors welcomed me into a territory that was quite unknown: the hub of […]
Dispatch #038
Crazy by Miles Cates, age 8 Inspired by Shel Silverstein’s, If The World Was Crazy sent on June 4, 2020 If the world was crazy, you know what I’d eat? An entire […]
Dispatch #037
2 Poems By Hollie Hardy A Murmuration of Starlings In the cities, protestors break quarantine and windows expressing moral outrage, like a choreographed ballet at 45, your mother asks you to move […]
Dispatch #034
3 Poems By Bill Gainer Thinking about Stuff By Bill Gainer It’s quiet tonight. Everyone you love gone to sleep left you to it. So you just think […]
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