Category: Corona
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The Corona Diaries ~ April
So I know it’s June and it’s been a while since the first Corona Dairies but I don’t want to forget to post this. These are the ramblings I recorded on my phone in between grocery store shifts last spring. It’s strange rereading them now, as the world—my corner of it, at least—opens up like…
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it’s March again
Commemorating a full year of … this. it’s March again I want to see your face __________________________again I want to brush shoulders with strangers _________and not flinch step into a subway ________with no space sing in a crowd of a thousand ________smiles it’s March again I want to touch your hand ____________________________again I want to…
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The Corona Diaries ~ March
It’s nearing the end of 2020—I thought the day I could say that would never come, sometimes. What a year. So, I’ve been looking back through my “Corona Journal” in my iPhone notes. It’s a bunch of typo-ridden voice-typed ramblings about my reactions to life since March. A lot of it centers around working in…
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Death to Normal
I already posted this on Instagram, but I wanted all my Corona poetry in one spot. I originally wrote it in April, I think, but now I realize it also echoes my sentiments about my—our—newfound awareness of the racial injustices in America. We are dealing with hard things, friends. We are tired. But we cannot…
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To 2020
I will fight for this year. I will not let This murky mayhem make me forget That this is the year of perfect vision: This is the year of bold decision. By fighting I mean digging my fingernails Into all that is good in these travails; By perfect vision I mean learning to see Without…
A Glimpse of Starlight 