By Alex Clare I’m an NHS worker (non-clinical) based in Brighton at the moment, but consider London home. I knew I wanted to write this poem almost a year ago in the first weeks of lockdown one, but didn’t get round to forming a coherent structure for it or putting words on paper for quiteContinue reading “Year of the Rat”
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Distancing Socially
By Chris Palmer
she was well-known
as a super spreader
when we found ourselves
locked down
Three Poems
By Ella Walsworth-Bell
In the last six months
I have been illegal
I have touched other people
Not skin-to-skin
Not breath-to-warm-breath
But illegal, notwithstanding
Four times in all
Three Poems
By Stephen Kingsnorth
What is this monster on the screen,
come bouncing round with knobs in place,
as though arrived from outer space,
an orbiter, unknown, unseen?
Three Poems
Dennis Andrew Aguinaldo An Offer Milk Pandemics I, Moon Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo teaches a course called “Science and Technology in Literature” at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. He blogs at tekstong bopis. I listen to the oldest poems and a good number of what we have now as shaped breathing. Lamentably, tooContinue reading “Three Poems”
Covid
By Janet Thomas
Selfish ruthless invader,
Sneaking in covertly
Attacking wickedly,
By isolation and loneliness.
Two Poems
By Deborah Harvey
Two Poems
By Tara Shannon
Two Poems
By Andy N The Flowers Out of our sight the flowers are coming into bloomLike something is being said by NatureGroaning silently in the breezeWatching shadows dip early that morning Metamorphosing across rings of truthOf our days in isolation that springBefore growing old in a matter of monthsOut of the restless tension in all ofContinue reading “Two Poems”