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Two Poems

  • May 7, 2020
  • 2:37 pm
  • Pittsburgh
Praying to God about COVID-19/ is like asking a fox/ to lay an egg/ after he’s eaten/ all the chickens.
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Charlie Brice

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The Altered Eye

 

             For the eye altering alters all…

             William Blake

 

Last year my friend, Steve, was sick.

The hounds of his heart ran wild

in his chest and ate their fill until

his doctors finally collared them

too late to undo their ravage.

He was housebound for a year,

had to stay home away from

dandelion and sunflower,

rose and churchyard—all

manner of floating infectors.

Now the world is sick and Steve

stays at home like the rest of us,

quarantined against invisible intruders but,

unlike last year, ringed by wife and kids.

“It’s the least isolated I’ve been in a year,”

he writes, and alters the landscape,

the inscape—alters all.

 


 

Prayer in the Time of Coronavirus

 

Praying to God about COVID-19

is like asking a fox

to lay an egg

after he’s eaten

all the chickens.

 

Charlie Brice
Charlie Brice is the author of Flashcuts Out of Chaos (2016), Mnemosyne’s Hand (2018), and An Accident of Blood (2019), all from WordTech Editions. His poetry has been nominated for the Best of Net anthology and twice for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Atlanta Review, The Sunlight Press, Chiron Review, Plainsongs, I-70 Review, Mudfish 12, The Paterson Literary Review, and elsewhere.

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  1. jim Hutt says:
    05/08/2020 at 3:12 PM

    Spectacular! Especially Praying To God About Covid-19!

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