Ninety-First Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
venturing
onto the tree-lined street
for the first time
my old friend sings
to a songbird's melody
the smell
lingers in São Paulo's air
row upon row
of wooden grave markers
waiting for names
Added: Ninety-Second Entry about a cross-border marriage
rows of Americans
and a line of Canadians
along the border fence
in the sunlit breeze
the couple sign I do, I do ...
1 Brazil’s Bolsonaro downplays coronavirus risks: "We’re all going to die one day," accessed at https://www.marketwatch.com/story/brazils-bolsonaro-downplays-coronavirus-risks-were-all-going-to-die-one-day-2020-03-29
ReplyDelete2 Brazil's Bolsonaro questions coronavirus deaths, says "sorry, some will die," accessed at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazils-bolsonaro-questions-coronavirus-deaths-says-sorry-some-will-die-idUSKBN21E3IZ
“I’m sorry, some people will die, they will die, that’s life,” Bolsonaro said in a television interview on Friday night. “You can’t stop a car factory because of traffic deaths.”
The following tanka could be read as a response poem to the ninety-second entry: Life is going on and will go on even in the Time of Covid19
ReplyDeletethis year
another wedding
another baby …
we extend the old oak table,
squeeze in a few more chairs
Spent Blossoms, TSA Anthology, 2015
Susan Constable