One Hundred Seventy-Third Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
a bead of sweat
trickling down her face
the masked nurse
gives shot after shot ...
Make America Hug Again
Added: One Hundred Seventy-Fourth Entry
outbreak briefing
the doctor's new strands
of gray hair
Added: One Hundred Seventy-Fifth Entry
sound of ice pellets
against nursing home windows ...
new cases surge
The following two tanka could be read as pre/sequels to the one hundred seventy-third entry:
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the first shot
in grandpa's arm ...
all day long
rubbing prayer beads
grandma recites the Heart Sutra
One Hundred Sixty-Third Entry
grandma
feels a jab of pain
in her arm ...
grandpa whispers to her
everything will be fine
There are three other Covid19 poems about nursing home care in crisis:
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the rainstorm sky
in her grandmother's eyes
nursing home window
Forty-Fourth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
a tired nurse
opens the bedside window
my friend's voice
flows in with the night breeze
as his mother's eyes close
Fifty-Eighth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
To Justin Trudeau who addressed the House of Commons on saving the elderly from coronavirus on April 11, saying, They fought for us all those years ago. And today we fight for them. We will show ourselves to be worthy of this magnificent country they built.
at the briefing
the photogenic PM's mouth
opens and closes ...
a nursing home silhouetted
against the sunset sky