You are masked and gloved . . . and socially distant . . . orbiting the silent film Orphans of the Storm . . . gingerly navigating the crapshoot of grocery-shopping . . . An essential to the soundless you eat the loss of the future tense with its enigmatic typescript captioning It's a Wonderful Life for those in search of closure . . . Someone somewhere is about to pull a ripcord to float shamelessly and selflessly into the enveloping ether . . . There will be others Copyright 2020 Tom Corrado
Bio:
Tom Corrado coordinates the Rensselaerville NY Library’s twice-monthly poetry group, curates the Library’s annual Poem-A-Day Project in celebration of National Poetry Month, and blogs at scriptsfortoday.blogspot.com. His poems have appeared in Chronogram, Exquisite Corpse, Hudson River Art, The Pine Hills Review, Up the River, among others.
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.
As you view the work on this site each day, we would like to encourage you to donate to the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC). Their mission “ is to feed our neighbors in need by providing dignified access to supplemental groceries. AFAC is seeing a record number of families due to the COVID-19 pandemic as families who never thought they would ever be in need are now showing up at our doors for much needed food.” And, in keeping with our hunger-focused efforts, you may also want to visit the Poetry X Hunger website where poems by many poets are posted and are being used by anti-hunger organizations.”
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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