Have a read of my poem, ‘Safe … The Pandemic’ first published in ‘Milestones’ Anthology (Ginninderra Press). It is also one of the poems in my debut collection, ‘The Cellist, a Bellydance & Other Distractions‘ (Ginninderra Press). I hope...
Have a read of my poem, ‘Safe … The Pandemic’ first published in ‘Milestones’ Anthology (Ginninderra Press). It is also one of the poems in my debut collection, ‘The Cellist, a Bellydance & Other Distractions‘ (Ginninderra Press).
I hope you enjoy it.
Safe … The Pandemic:
Everyone needs order,
clothes rehung,
cut roses secured in
a vase.
When we move,
when we place one foot
and then the other,
we can put small things in place,
an email to a friend in another country,
bags of rubbish carried out
to the bins.
Our brains, wired this way,
want the winter doona
smoothed squarely across the bed,
the freezer stocked, and remotes
in position.
After we get out, we have only to move
cautiously, surrounded by so much space.
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