Learning to Draw During COVID
By Millie Ford — It was a hard time to be a hypochondriac. Daily death tolls geysering all over the country. Refrigerated trucks as temporary morgues.
Oct 30
Everyone Has Covid
By Suzanne D. Miller — Everyone has Covid. Hyperbole but true. Everyone has Covid. I'm boosted. Hey, are you? Everyone has Covid. Yet restaurants still
Jun 18
We Don't Talk About the Pandemic Anymore
By Chuck Rybak — They ebbed. We helped them. We fed the belly beef. Be well. They ebbed. The MD meted the med medly. ML, MG. Yet the temp fell
May 27
Mom Won’t Answer The Door Anymore
By Dwight Jenkins — Not sure Mom why I thought you’d give me notice when you were ready to die. You’ve left a deep hole in my heart
Mar 12
New Times For Old
By Lynn White — It wasn’t the first pandemic and, as in all the ones before birds sang an opening chorus for the pollen laden bees to hum
Oct 30, 2024
A Day in the Forest
By Birdman313 — Watching and listening as the streams flow down, around and over debris in its path. Their destination is well traveled
Sep 16, 2024
An Omen From COVID
By B. Craig Grafton — When everyone went into a panic mode about the COVID, I did too at first. After all, we were told by our government
Sep 1, 2024
RT-PCR test
By Sandip Saha — I saw how much you can take on yourself, untiring in the adventurous tour we ventured into. RT-PCR and Rapid Antigen tests
Jun 20, 2024
Purple Season
By Genevieve S. Aguinaldo — It was 4 am when you told me that you had the virus. How can you tell me not to panic? We are separated by nine
May 15, 2024
Dislocated
By Mona Mehas — In the beginning, there was panic, I took all the precautions, stayed home, wore a mask if I went out, had food delivered,
Jan 18, 2024
Make it funny—Covid Reflections, Dreams & Nightmares
By Wanda Potrykus — Like the comedy shows though, it seems the Covid-19 virus has no respect for anyone, and it's obviously also totally
May 5, 2023
A Nightingale Reaches a Crescendo
By Caroline Reddy — When our soil and soul began to fade, we trapped a nightingale in a cage. I stood stained in remorse forgetting about
Nov 14, 2022
Growing Pains
By Ashley Dayanara Campos — I was a professional translator by age seven, a lawyer by age ten, an accountant by thirteen, and on track to
Oct 9, 2022
Blood Red Moon
By Birdman313 — Regardless of your beliefs, it is often wise to pay attention to nature as it often gives us many signs large and small that
Jul 5, 2022
WINTER MAY COME
By Owolusi Lucky — To the undying locust, how deep your ugly belly. To those who said earth load was heavy, do you see the ocean smiling, or
Jun 1, 2022