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Silent Killer By Marie Davis COVID represents itself, here, there, and everywhere.It is worldwide.You can’t hide.COVID is here to accomplish a goal,And it is a hefty toll.Its purpose is to destroy humankind.To leave their body lifeless,without their mind.It doesn’t want you to survive,because it doesn’t want you alive.It doesn’t discriminate.Whether you’re black or white, young…

Valley of the Shadows of Death: A Covid-19 Poem by Tawana Robinson Scientist conducted meta analysisExamination of data from a number of independent studies on the same virusIn order to determine overall trendsAnd what they determinedIs that the virus that causes Covid is constantly changingThey’ve seen a number of prominent variantsAlpha, Beta, Delta, and OmincronAnd…

Portraits of Pandemic Evenings, circa June 2020 by Alice Ranjan I.At twilight, we learn that the firstcase of COVID-19 has emerged in our state.I look to you, an emergency physician, light fading from your eyes as you look pensively into that fading light,and T. S. Elliot’s words reverberate in my mind:“the evening was spread out…

Suited & Booted-Ode to Health Care Workers: In the Voice of Momma Rose by Rosemarie Wilson aka One Single Rose Life ain’t been no crystal stairfor anybody since the year of our Lord 2020.Stolen breath of millions flew away on wings of liesreducing workforces to bare minimumsshutting the entire planetdown.Caregivers forced to recycle PPE‘cause stingy…

Communion Since COVID by Jonathan Fletcher Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little FlowerSan Antonio, TexasWhat is bread without blood?Or a Peace be with youwithout the shake of a hand?Separated by pews,masks as common as mantillas, we feel so distant from each other as we thirst for wine that accompanies wafers no longer.At such…

Nosophobia By Jack Ryan Hogan They all stare at me,piercing me with paranoia-glazed looks,stalking my every move.All kinds of gazes; manufactured fear.Layered in cold, aggressive heaps,fueled by a confused urge for self-preservation.Bloodshot eyes; the rest of their faces concealed in fabric.I approach one of them, they back away from me. Treat me like a wild…

Disconnect By Q. Imagine Why, whyon these cloudy skies,do I drift and drift by…As I walk on barren sidewalkswith cold whispers drifting by.Fearful thoughts invading my mind,a cough/ a chill,a hello/ goodbye.Why, why,do I even try,when these cold whispers and cool summersfly by.And I drift back to those times.The turnarounds and upside downs.The memories as…

Even in the Middle of Winter 2021 By Lois Perch Villemaire I’m here to tell you I have hopes of spring. Shades of green will return to the woods behind our house. How many times during these months have I wandered to the window?Before leaves fell from incredibly erect treesthe woods provided a view, home…

Garden of Hope by Renee Blanche Cargerman Dolezal, PhD Today we honor those whom we have lost,But loved so deeply, their memory lives on,And though we suffered a heavy cost,We refuse to sing the Song of the Swan;And we honor those who fought for our lives:Brave nurses, doctors, and those who delivered;Here placed in our…

Together we overcame by Serena Goyal There was a certain cleanse Hands washed, surfaces wipedTears cleared, Laughter maskedWe sterilized purpose: scrubbing and removingWe gave it whatever it needed Whomever it neededThere was a certain uncertaintyA slow loom that festered and grew It took control: conquering and spreadingWe felt at mercy to its reign We gave…