Life in the Pandemic

My pandemic poem Life in the Pandemic appears in New Verse News, a great online journal of poems about the news.

Life in the Pandemic

Things are slowing down.

It takes me 2 days to drink a cup of coffee,
A week to read a book,
A month to water the bushes we re-planted in June.

I move from one room to another
looking for shoes I haven’t worn in 2 months.
If I come across my car keys
I won’t recognize them.

I’ve stopped listening to the news
Stopped looking out the window
Stopped wondering what tomorrow
Will be like.

I started this poem in March
Maybe I’ll finish it
By Christmas.

https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2020/07/life-in-pandemic.html