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 my smartphone I Google death stare at a picture of an infected Princess off the coast of Cali. In the cradle of my hand: maps of the earth, red circles rising. I walk to the sink, scrub with soap, wash until water runs clear. Copyright 2020 J. Khan
Bio:
J. Khan lives and works in the Midwestern USA and has published over fifty poems.
Donation Appeal:
Throughout June and July, we will be presenting on this web site work by poets and artists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you will find these works relevant, comforting and inspiring as we all cope with the economic and health-related fallout.
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Throughout June and July, we will be presenting on this web site work by poets and artists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope you will find these works relevant, comforting and inspiring as we all cope with the economic and health-related fallout.
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