Friday, April 17, 2020

A poem for COVID-19 and ten inches of snow




I don't write poems as much as I used to, mostly because I've gotten to an impasse with poetry. I know from experience submitting poems that my poems don't quite have what it means to be great, and I don't seem to be able to figure out what they are missing. I also think they're too short compared to modern poetry. But here's a depressing poem for today:

A glimpse out the window
at blasted apple blossoms
and snowfall blotting out
the first green of spring
and the doors barred
to keep contagion out —
the world could end
with an ellipse
at the end of a message
as
all
traffic
ceases.

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