COVIDTRY Poem 08 (What Sound does an Outbreak Make?)

One night in May, 2020
A boy in his doggy
In Saskatchewan, Canada
Had a little chatty

Hey, doggy!
––Yeah, boy.

What sound does a snake make?
––Why, hisssss, of course!
––––The dog said menacingly.

And what sound does a quake make?
––Why rrrrrumble, of course!
––––The dog said unsteadily.

And what sound does an outbreak make?
––Why, um, ask the horse!
––––The dog said quite mockingly.

What sound does an outbreak make?
Why, it’s… BOOOM!
Bahahahahaha!
––––Laughed the boy heartily –
––––Watching his startled dog run away –
––––For days and more days –
––––As you only can –
––––In flat Saskatchewan

 

05.06.20

COVIDTRY Poem 07

Nova Scotia
Last province in Canada
To get COVID-19
First province in Canada
To go crazy in quarantine

 

04.24.20

COVIDTRY Poem 05

 

A very deep ocean harbour
In very windy city
So calm it is a mirror
Reflecting the tranquility
Of a COVID locked down city

 

03.31.20

COVIDTRY Poem 04 (Tales from Covid)

Reading Tales from Ovid
To pass time from CoViD
But sans belovèd
I didn’t love it

Thus I underwent
Metamorphosis
In this room I rent
Suffering from zoocosis

From reader of verse
To writer of poetry
And from that traverse
Sprung forth my COVIDtry

 

03.30.20

COVIDTRY Poem 03

Noon cannon on Citadel Hill
Has gone silent

Ironically
When a new war has begun
One fought without guns
But rather with self-isolation

 

03.29.20

COVIDTRY Poem 02

CoViDTRY
Is COVID-19 poetry
Poems about CoViD-19

Innovation
In isolation

 

03.29.20

COVIDTRY Poem 01

Can the novel Coronavirus –
Be made into –
A novelette Coronavirus?

It seemed whomever
Called the Coronavirus “novel” –
Gave it a far more apt name
Than he could have imagined –
Given the long and complex stories
It’s generating around the world

 

03.18.20