A false new birth. This too blue sky. These red tulips with yellow pistils yawn open. The sparrows outside my dining room window harvest soft fluff grass twigs for their nest to welcome their chicks they know just what to do when we remain dumbfounded. Read this grief. The burials without funerals No one there like Eleanor Rigby without the music. Hard to imagine this or after no gloves no masks. When I open my eyes What will I see Then. Copyright 2020 Susan Notar
Bio:
Susan Notar is a poet living in Northern, Virginia. Her work has appeared in a number of publications including Penumbra, Joys of the Table, an Anthology of Culinary Verse, and the forthcoming Written in Arlington, Poems of Arlington, Virginia. She works at the U.S. State Department on the Middle East. She has one tall and delightful son.
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.”
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