poetry – Infection House

Afternoon Tea With God

Athena Nassar
Poetry
Georgia
August 6

God invites me to a weeping willow to apologize for the pandemic/ over a cup of tea.

Brief Rules

Kent Leatham
Poetry
California
August 4

As soon as this Disease appears by its signs—/ Let the sick abstain from—open Air—/ The Disease will be the sooner over and less troublesome—

A Triptych of Poems

Clay Thistleton
Poetry
Australia
July 27

the coronasplaining of the armchair virologists/ Donald J. Trump is the King of all Ventilators/ by a hard lockdown under drone biosurveillance

3000 Ancestros

Nicole Rivera
Poetry
NYC
July 21

If this were my village, we’d play bombas and huehuetl/ dance around in cocoon leg rattles with the Yanqui

Fireworks Are The New Crack

Nicole Rivera
Poetry
NYC
July 21

They want us to lose/ sleep, fireworks create punctures/ and blood spreads in geometric shapes across the pavement.

Hey Medusa

Kari Gunter-Seymour
Poetry
Appalachia
July 4

I’m discussing constitutional law/ with an attorney in the pub car./ I’m not gonna lie,/ I’m having a hard time./ He’s a dweeb and I don’t/ know my amendments.

Mahogany

Ian Monroe
Poetry
New Orleans
June 29

Unison exists when chaos/ proves useless./ A scattered diaspora finding solace/ in synergy.

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The tone of my voice/ won’t allow me to start/ revolutions;/ I read a book about introverts this morning/ and shared Rosa Parks’ dilemma;/ I read the latest news about Ahmaud this afternoon,/ couldn’t breathe,/ couldn’t sleep/ for days.