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 13
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 31, 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 17, 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 2, 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 21, 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 16, 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 6, 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 10, 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 6, 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 2, 2022
Summertime Lost
By Richard Temple — Nearly eight billion sides to this story but we don't have time for that here. Paralyzed stasis:
Nothing is moving, not
May 7, 2022
On Reading and Writing during the Pandemic
By Joyce Bou Charaa — Since the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, we have been trying to escape the news, the economic crisis
Apr 5, 2022
Inexorable Fate
By Gary Beck — Americans watched on TV as the police were overwhelmed by hundreds of attackers and no one sent reinforcements to defend the
Mar 16, 2022
