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Don’t Bubble Me Up – Benita H. Kape
Don’t Bubble me up. I’m fed up with being in a Bubble. UP!! I need to walk out free. Forget Seventy or Eighty (+) (and please stay at home at all times.) More like Forty Three! That’s What … Continue reading
Cornhole – Sally Toner
To preserve formatting, this poem has been saved as a PDF. Please click on the link below to access it. Cornhole Bio: Sally Toner is a High School English teacher who has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for over 20 … Continue reading
GOTHIC PANDEMIC – David Churchhill
GOTHIC PANDEMIC Coronavirus 2020 The images were shocking: birds with hooked or spearing beaks in surgical gowns; catfish whiskers, goggles and shrimp-forks— Hard to believe one t.v. screen could contain such sights. The newspapers were worse, full … Continue reading
Palmistry – J. Khan
She traces lines, then lifts her eyes to ask: Who will you save? What did she see in my hands upturned to heaven? Perhaps bats rising from my palms, swarms winging into night. In the glare of … Continue reading
Dear Emily, – Mark Ó Brien
Dear Emily, The grocery carriages hold paper supplies, They drive them quickly, with much haste; Among those who could not put away their labor, Or leisure, for courtesies. On the way home they pass the school, No longer … Continue reading
Seascape – Gail Axtell-Erwin
Bio: Lyrical realist painter, Gail Axtell-Erwin also creates jeweled collages & “Clockworks” and has been an Artist-member of the Reston Art Gallery for more than 20 years. Donation Appeal: Throughout June and July, we will be presenting on this web … Continue reading
Many Legs – Ingrid Bruck
Self-isolating during corona virus, home feels like a trap, a curse not shared by insects. They are not halted by human fear. Not the woolly caterpillar crawling across the driveway. Not the inch worm that pushes and pulls, shoving the … Continue reading
Coronavirus Spring – Zeina Azzam
What I want to say to the tulips that emerged, again, in March: I am so grateful to count on you. There is nothing else to gird me anymore. This beauty almost makes me weep. Do you see … Continue reading
Social Distancing – Martin Willitts Jr
Crows land on telephone wires apart equal distances, squawking, maintain space. Cows kneel, not touching shoulders, content and separate. Geese pattern six feet apart, flying in a pyramid Ants march single file, six ant-lengths. A bee entering a hive, wipes … Continue reading
Corona Lament – Nancy Newman
(Hope this poem brings you a smile.) Hey, don’t blame me. I’m just a bit of fat covered protein doing what I’m programmed to do. Well, yes, I’m invisible to your eyes. I guess that’s not really fair. But you … Continue reading
