NOTES ON A PANDEMIC by Susan Waters

Notes on a Pandemic

 

What stories shall we tell

   past knotted fear:

 

Of touching without flesh

of Winter-seeded faith

of viral music trumpeting

   imagine all the people

of hands sounding gratitude

of words looped over metered space

     threading a collective

of parked tyres, dusty tarmac;

 

the exhaling earth

the constancy of sun

a pink crescent moon

the usual light on

       all our faces

(Click play below to hear the author recite "Notes on a Pandemic") 

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Susan Waters is a poet and contributor to The Forgiveness Project, that shares stories of forgiveness in order to build hope, empathy and understanding. Susan has self published her first collection of poems The Welcoming Table. A new venture, an audio/visual presentation of her poem Notes on a Pandemic is available on YouTube.

 

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